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Originally Posted by
benbenkr 
"Ram speed doesn't matter" has been debunked years ago, but people chose to ignore it because... well, everyone is an expert right?
http://www.overclock.net/t/1366657/ddr3-1600-vs-2133-is-there-a-difference-in-game/0_20
Then comes DF and suddenly everyone agrees. Lol.
I'd like to see the faces of people who stuck by the bare minimum of RAM speed in DDR3/DDR4 instead of choosing to buy faster mem with better ICs. Even more hilarious are those who would say that OCing RAM is a complete waste of time.
While this is true and always has been true (especially for those who are using Crossfire or SLI setups), and of course even outside of gaming. Sometimes trying to fight against the majority isn't worth the aggravation when many mainstream sources claim that "Ram Speed Doesn't Matter." They perpetuate this misinformation and it becomes quite difficult to break people's assurance on the idea because of the fact that so many mainstream outlets are outright claiming that memory speed has no effect on system performance. The sad part is, not only do they make claims that "memory speed does not affect gaming performance" the majority of them outright claim that it has no impact while doing other tasks, which is even more ridiculous.
One of my first upgrades I did on my computer when I first built "Kymatica" was going from 8GB of DDR3-1600 to 16GB of DDR3-2133. I instantly noticed many various improvements not only in gaming performance (most notably minimum framerate increases were drastic) but just day to day tasks felt much faster than on 1600MHz memory e.g. Extracting zip/rar files, opening up folders, encoding mp3s, shut down times, restart times, opening up programs, etc. basically any normal function you would do on your computer felt much snappier and it was way beyond placebo effect. I also noticed quite often that I was getting much better framerates in games compared to other people with similar specs, and more often than not it would be because they were running slower memory with worse timings (showing that it is the Cas Latency being the culprit in the end).
I also always wondered why people complained about stuttering, hitching, and many other similar issues while gaming. When I can't remember once in my entire PC Gaming life ever experiencing stuttering or hitching even going back 12 years ago and it was always because either A) I overclocked my memory or B) I ran the faster stuff to begin with.
