For the same money, which would you choose: 16GB (8GBx2) 1600MHz DDR3 or 8GB (4GBx2) 2400MHz DDR3 I'm just curious whether more people prefer outright OC potential or huge capacity. I suspect the former for people here, but would a more capable 3rd Gen 22nm Intel CPU tempt you to OC memory more? It's a significant frequency increase.
2400 mhz definitely, half tempted to try overclocking the memory in my next build for fun, though the performance gains would probably be minimal...
A very interesting question! Unless you do video encoding or similar tasks, there's not much need for over 8gb. I'm not sure if this is how it would work in the real world, but if you calculate 'RAM Potential' or RP by multiplying the capacity by speed, you get 19200RP for 8gig of 2400 and 25600RP for 16gig of 1600. Then if you factor in that higher frequencies will mean higher latency, there will be a further advantage of having more capacity at lower speed, although the affect of latency is only very small.
Any hints on whether the conclusions of this article will still apply to Ivy Bridge? As for the question, I'd definitely go for 16GB.
Dont suppose you have any spare ASUS Maximus V GENE Z77 mobos going to waste Bindibadgi? That board looks the part as does it supported memory frequencies. Never did get to change my p67pro rev2. This board may just be what im after. Whats the deal with ddr3 anyway? Are manufacturers just increasing mhz at the expense of timings?
The 16GB, although it's a downgrade either way for me. I lose speed with the 16GB 1600MHz from my 1866MHz kit and halve the capacity with the 8GB 2400MHz. Can I just have the 2400MHz for Geekbench runs?
It ALL depends on the ICs. The latest ones can do super high frequency but it has to be quite high latency CL10/11. The retail channel almost sells entirely by frequency anyway - few are educated enough to understand timings. Our ROG boards have IC profiles built in, so if you buy memory with Samsung ICs you just click the profile and you get the optimum timings that work on our board.
You seen them dirt cheap Samsungs that are doing like 25-2600? They're the cheapest thing running here, and they're insane. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...R3-capable-of-2400MHz.-Perfect-for-SFF-builds. 16GB capable of what the 8 is, and possibly more, for I'm betting same or better.
I would do the 16GB too. I've never seen a convincing argument for high speed RAM in games, and I like to play with the odd VM here and there.
