Why Do We Need HIGH SPEED RAM?

[Iver Hicarte]

Why do we need high speed ram when all you need to have is more ram. Even for productivity, all you need is more ram instead of high speed ram. So what's the use of those high speed ram sticks? I know for a fact that you need high speed ram for fast responsiveness (to my knowledge). So back to my question, what are the uses of high speed ram and why do we need it?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

 

[Boy07]

Why do we need high speed ram when all you need to have is more ram. Even for productivity, all you need is more ram instead of high speed ram. So what's the use of those high speed ram sticks? I know for a fact that you need high speed ram for fast responsiveness (to my knowledge). So back to my question, what are the uses of high speed ram and why do we need it?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

The most probable reason is,you will need it sometime later,when high demanding games would be launched requiring much much faster ram.As of now,even 1600Mhz is still okay.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

What architecture are you asking about? AMD APUs need fast RAM for graphics. Skylake scales nicely the faster you go.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/08/05/intel_skylake_core_i76700k_ipc_overclocking_review/6#.WD58JlxSRKE

It really depends on what you're doing. Some programs and a very few games can make use of very fast RAM. DDR4 3200 looks to be the new DDR3 1600.

 

[Tradesman1]

You don't NEED fast DRAM, especially if single tasking, for multi-tasking, using DRAM intensive apps, large data sets and the the like the faster DRAMs wider bandwidth provides for nice increases performance wise, even in many of the newer games and upcoming games