Ram choosing help
The way to calculate effective query return time for RAM (in a CAS only way) is to figure out the frequency in seconds of the clock speed, and multiply that by the CAS speed. This is a best case scenario RAM read request time.
In your case, 3000MHz CAS 16 RAM. First we figure out the actual frequency of the RAM, which is simply the reported frequency divided by two (because DDR stands for Double Data Rate). So, 1500MHz has a period of .666 nanoseconds. Now, we multiply this by the CAS time of 16, and we get that it takes 10.656 nanoseconds for the memory to fulfil a best case memory request.
You are comparing this against RAM that is 3600MHz with a CAS of 19. 3600/2=1800. 1800MHz has a period of .555 nanoseconds. 19x0.555= 10.545 nanoseconds for a best case memory request.
The difference is .111 nanoseconds in response time. The 3600MHz will be slightly faster. But that small amount of improvement isn't enough to justify the cost of new RAM (at least for non cutting edge scientific use cases). You will not notice any improvement at all (at least in CAS time. What are the other timings for both models?)
Alternatively, you can try to reduce the timings of you current RAM. Even reducing the CAS time of your 3000MHz sticks by 1, giving them a CAS of 15, will be a better improvement to performance than buying the other stick and running it at factory XMP specs.
. @robby999

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