tubers

Example:

Kingston DDR 2 800Mhz 5-5-5-15@2T (4gb)

vs.

Corsair DDR 3 1600Mhz 8-8-8-24@2T (6gb)

= DDR 3 wins in quicker ALT+TABs?

(example playing Crysis, CoD and Prototype.. alt tab alt tab alt tab)

( i know its s2pd but does the higher Mhz and lower latencies mean faster alt tabbing?)

thanks in advance

low strife

There is alot more than just speed & latency difference between DDR2 and DDR3.

In general, you want low timings, but you need high clocks if you want a high CPU overclock.

Open1Your1Eyes0

Latency difference make more impact than speed (MHz) difference (almost no impact). But ultimately they don't really matter. Only important for overclocking the CPU.

See Here and Here

EDIT: The biggest impact in terms of ram is size. More ram is always better. See Here

Biggest difference is going from 2GB to 4GB; anything greater than 4GB makes little to no difference unless you like to load a lot of things at the same time and have many things in the background.

Basically, the rule of thumb with ram is: the more RAM the better and preferably lower latencies but if price is becoming a big factor its probably not worth it so go with best price/performance ratio.

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Asus Mobile

If this is RAM and gaming then yea all current RAM is fast enough as not a significant factor in gaming performance. Look at Openeyes first link two games. But I do disagree with the interpretation that from those numbers timings matter more? I just don't agree looking at the same data.

If we are talking RAM performance isolated disregard all that posters above said as it is just wrong.

ArmenianLegend

only way you could do that is if u had over 6gb-8gb of ram and page fileling off, the thing that slows down alt tabing is that whatever u dont use goes on ur hardrive to save memory

dragosmp

At equal sizes, only the speed and/or latency bring nothing that can be observed when alt+tab.
The 6GB DDR3 kit may have an advantage because it's 6GB and the other DDR2 is 4GB, this can be noticeable if you have many apps open.

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tubers

what? whats this "page filing"? Will my system become unstable if i disable it? or more laggy?

tubers

is there like a synthetic benchmarking for "alt+tabbing" with medium to heavy apps?

haha

tubers

OMG! so for "normal" ppl.. pretty much that means very very little to negligible

thanks again!

tubers

so if "tomshardware" articles were true.. does it make a lot of DDR 2 800 mhz 6-6-6-18 ( i think this is very common) upgrade to "faster" ram but pays more than a 100% more is very bery impractical?