ddr3 question

[manny1222]

Is there much of a difference in performance between the 1333 and 1600 sticks? I bought 2 ddr3 1333 mainly because of the price and I see most people have the 1600. Besides the specs on the 2500K I got em for say it only supports 1033 and 1333.

 

[drescherjm]

Currently DDR3 1600 is usually the best bang for the buck only costing less than $5 more than DDR3 1333 so this is why a lot of users buy / recommend DDR3 1600.

Besides the specs on the 2500K I got em for say it only supports 1033 and 1333.

Anything over DDR3 1333 is technically an overclock of the memory controller on the CPU. However this is a very very easy overclock to achieve. The performance difference in the real world is not earth shattering but there is a little more performance when using DDR3 1600 versus DDR3 1333 and even more difference to DDR3 1066.

 

[DejaWiz]

Anything over 1333 will not provide a noticeable difference in anything except synthetic benchmarks, and even then it's pretty tiny of a gain.