why 2400mhz is too much for gaming?

[Luis Val]

In another post I heard that 2400 might be too much for gaming, that 1600mhz memory are enough, but my question is why?

What kind of apps benefit from such kind of memory?

 

[ezskills]

DDR3-2400 will not show its superiority unless you run synthetic benchmarks, they are the same performance in everyday tasks. watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWgzA2C61z4

 

[Demorthus]

You only need 1600Mhz (1866Mhz even.)

 

[Tradesman1]

For gaming 1600 is fine as gaming really only uses DRAM as a data conduit from CPU to GPU, with faster sticks you might pick up a few FPS 2-5, but generally that's it, faster DRAM shines when rendering video, working with images, running VMs, large data sets, CAD, muti-tasking, etc