Benefits of faster RAM outside of gaming

[Legatta]

I've been trying to find meaningful information about the benefits of better RAM, and all anyone seems to be concerned with is gaming. I know that RAM has minimal effect in games, but I'm planning on moving onto Skylake, and DDR4 soon; does the faster RAM really do anything?

I also produce music, I don't know if better RAM would increase the performance there, or if it's more of a HDD issue.

 

[dudeman509]

It will very slightly speed up compression, conversion, and file operations.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6372/memory-performance-16gb-ddr31333-to-ddr32400-on-ivy-bridge-igp-with-gskill/11

Apparently Fallout 4 benefits from fast RAM for whatever reason.

 

[Legatta]

Thanks for the reply!
That's interesting, must be a very CPU intensive game.