ram Capacity vs Frequency

[Narlindir]

Hey guys,

this is my first post so please dont be to harsh with me.

 

My situation is this:  When building my rig I saved money on my RAM so I only got a single stick with 4gb ddr3 (Kingston-1866-CL10 240-UDIMM).

I upgraded my RAM sice I got some money off a holiday job with a dual kit 2x4gb ddr3 (Kingston-1866-CL9 240-UDIMM) [Pictures of both boxes down below].

So far so good. As I realized that the memory was not running at the desired 1866 mhz but at 1600 mhz (which I paid a couple bucks more for both for the frequency aswell as the dual kit functionality vs a single 8gb stick figuring what the hey I can afford it) and feeled scammed. As i did some research I quickly realized that I had to activate the xmp profile for it. Doing so my sytem refused to boot and I dialed back to 1600mhz. Looking at the boxes I realized that the new and improved version of the DIMMs I opted for had a reduced latency (CL9 vs the old CL10).

 

~My question for You guys now is: Are the additional mhz worth a 4gb sacrifice?

 

To put this in context: I am not very heavily gaming lately because of many programs refusing to run in a VM on Ubuntu Linux (Daybreak you dicks, kappa) and I found my love in Blizzards Hearthstone which runs like a charm in PlayOnLinux aswell as Firaxis XCOM which runs natively on my OS, which are both not very demanding (and I pretty much had my 300h in XCOM long war and there is only so long you can play)

 

Sidenote: I am not a natural speaker please correct my spelling, but only I You have already answered my question, thank You

[Enderman]

the frequency will make pretty much 0 difference

[Sakkura]

Are you ever using more than 8GB of memory? If not, dropping the extra 4GB will do practically nothing.

The extra speed isn't going to be a big deal, but in addition to getting some money back when you sell the extra stick, it seems like a nice solution.

However, it's quite possible you could manually tweak the settings to get it all working together.

[LokiFire]

There are gainz from more speed but not from more capacity, the only gainz you gain from capacity is ability to chew RAM more.

[Nena Trinity]

MHz + low CAS will increase frame-rate in games but not by to much!

[Narlindir]

Thank You all for the almost instant answers!

You guys are awesome

I will keep an eye on my RAM-usage and if I dont need that much capacity I will see if I can sell it.

Thanks again hopefully I will figure out how I can give you a "Thank You".

 

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