Will i see much of a performance increase from 1333 to 1600?

[Olli460]

Hi,

I just got a new motherboard which supports 1600mhz ram but my old ram is Kingston 4GB 1333MHz DDR3. Would i see much of an increase if i bought 4GB 1600mhz RAM, Or is it not worth doing?

Would the speed of ram effect things like extracting archives (rar files) etc ?

Thanks

 

[ahmeday2012]

It really isn't worth it. The performance difference is really tiny. Extracting goes more for the speed of the hard drive/SSD not RAM.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

No, only difference you'd see is if you were running an APU and gaming.

EDIT: However, it might be worth getting another 4GB of identical RAM to have 8GB. Depends what you're doing.

 

[ferooxidan]

if u want better speed of extracting rar etc, maybe get a SSD is better option. upgrading memory frequency if it is only that small is not noticeable at all

 

[Olli460]

Ok thank you for your help!

 

[vmN]

Only point of having high-frequency ram is when your CPU is going to pull out data constantly from your memory.
The CPU slow down to the memory frequency when pulling in data.
For those applications a higher frequency ram is perfect, that is application as rendering and such.

Whereof gaming rely much more on the CAS latency.
The lower latency the better.
The sweet spot currently lies on 1600/1866mz with a CL9.