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I am building a new gaming rig and want it to run crazy fast. Should I pay 2x the price for the super-fast gaming memory?
The short answer is no. Take a look at some of the results of benchmarking the latest cutting edge DDR3-1800 memory from OCZ here. If you scroll down the middle “1333mhz” column, comparing all the different memory with all the different timings, the biggest difference you see is 2fps… 2fps for memory that probably costs you 2x the price to put it in your gaming rig.
If you want to argue that these games are CPU or Video Card limited, that’s fine. Scroll back to the bandwidth tests and look at the result there as well. Same story, besides a slight peak, there is very little different.
Save your money and buy good/quality bundles of ram as opposed to the crazy latest ram with blinking lights on it =/
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August 31st, 2007 at 7:41 am
It sounds to me like some gamers are becoming like those crazy audiophiles who spend $10,000 on a the power cord for their amp, and they swear they can hear a difference.
If a game doesn’t run on standard commodity hardware then the game developers haven’t done their jobs properly. What’s the point spending a fortune on special memory when it’ll be obsolete in 2 years anyway?
August 31st, 2007 at 7:48 am
You are absolutely right Neil. While there are hard-and-fast numbers to justify the crazy video cards (most of the time atleast) the benefit for the crazy ram with flashy lights, and even motherboards just isn’t there.
Brute-force power (CPU/Video Card) still rules all.