1600 DDR3 memory will it make a real difference?

[steveis2]

Hi I have a MSI H61M-P31 G3 motherboard and a i5 3470 processor but DDR3 1333 memory. Would changing to DDR3 1600 memory make a noticeable difference to performance or would it make little or no difference?

Regards Steve

 

[manddy123]

Unfortunately, it will be little to no noticeable difference.

Increase in the total memory quantity, on the other side, would be noticeable. No doubts about that.

 

[Kavinqt]

Depends what games you are playing, In games like League / CSGO it should help a TINY bit, Overall though yeah little to no difference.

 

[ledhead11]

Little or no difference. You'd likely be trading latency for frequency and at this level no real difference should be noticeable.

In terms of RAM size, if you go from 8GB to 16GB you might notice a little difference but going from 16 to 32 wouldn't make much difference for gaming.

 

[The Paladin]

guessing you have 8gb I would get to 16 or 32GB to really see performance changes, but 1333 to 1600 even 1866 is not likely

 

[manddy123]

guessing you have 8gb I would get to 16 or 432GB to really see performance changes, but 1333 to 1600 even 1866 is not likely

Holy 432GB of RAM

 

[The Paladin]

damn you would catch my type before I correct it 😛

 

[steveis2]

Thanks everyone for an enlightening set of comments. I won't install the 1600 ram but will increase the amount.

Regards Steve

 

[helpstar]

I had the same thing to decide, have 1333MHz Ram and just bought used 1600MHz Ram. First thing, I got lucky it worked, second, I just overclocked the 1333MHz Ram to 1600MHz. And finally, I got no performance boost at all, but a bit better feeling because of more memory 😀