Upgraded my ram, only found out about the CL after buying it. And i can't return it since i opened it.

[FoxyZey]

I just upgraded my ram today, a crucial value ram from 2400MHZ 2x8 CL17 to 32gb 2x16 cl22 3200MHZ. 
will my gaming be affected badly ? i noticed some bad talk about CL22 but i can't seem to find like..tests or evidence of it ? am i screwed ? 

my build is : 
I5-11400
Rtx 3070 
H510M-S2H

 

[Shimejii]

your CPU is much more limiting than whatever ram you have chosen. You wont notice much of a difference  due to CL timings. Dont worry about it!

[FoxyZey]

7 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

your CPU is much more limiting than whatever ram you have chosen. You wont notice much of a difference  due to CL timings. Dont worry about it!

I don't know if chat GPT is correct but it says the old 2400MHZ ram is 14.75 latency, while the new ones are 13.25. Is that better ? So should i just be happy with my new ram ?

[Tetras]

13 minutes ago, FoxyZey said:

i noticed some bad talk about CL22 but i can't seem to find like..tests or evidence of it ? am i screwed ? 

CL22 / 3200 is JEDEC default I believe, that's fine, don't worry about it.

[Killjoy_NS]

5 minutes ago, FoxyZey said:

I don't know if chat GPT is correct but it says the old 2400MHZ ram is 14.75 latency, while the new ones are 13.25. Is that better ? So should i just be happy with my new ram ?

Install CPU-Z.

Run it.

Check MEMORY and SPD tab. 

 

Print Screen/take a picture of both tabs and send us here.

[FoxyZey]

6 minutes ago, Killjoy_NS said:

Install CPU-Z.

Run it.

Check MEMORY and SPD tab. 

 

Print Screen/take a picture of both tabs and send us here.

There you go

[porina]

It'll be fine. As it stands it (latency) is still same or slightly better than the old slow kit. You still gain the bandwidth and capacity upgrade compared to the old kit. Just enjoy it. Even if you got lower latency ram, you're not going to notice it outside of a benchmark run.

[Killjoy_NS]

7 minutes ago, FoxyZey said:

There you go

Everything looks fine. ENJOY.

 

As the "colleague" above mentioned: "You won't see any difference in speed except in benchmarks.

[cmndr]

RAM latency barely matters. 

It's something people scream about when chasing after the last few percent.