If you are going that route the Dominator Platinum is some e-peen ram that will cost you if you're doing 2 x 8 GB.

I'm guessing when DDR4 comes out you're going to upgrade ASAP haha.

Im gonna get the mushkin redline 16gb for my next buy

The easiest way to see the actual "performance"" without much hassle is a quick equation:

ddr is dual data rate (ddr1, ddr2, ddr3 all of them are)

so 1600 would be 800mhz for example.. (it is 800x2)

we'll take: latency / (mhz/2) = speed

lets say it has 10CL for easy math sake

10/800 = 0.0125

now lets see a piece of 1333mhz ram with 7CL

7 / (1333/2) =
7 / 666.5 =
0.0105
as you can see, the 1333mhz with 7CL is faster (lower is better)

Get them dominators mm

According to this formula:

1333 DDR3 CL7 < 1600 DDR3 CL8

If this is true, I'm definitely returning the former tomorrow.

EDIT: Meh, screw it. It's not that much faster.

This post was edited by VVR4ITH on Aug 13 2012 08:19pm

I have 2133 ram (corsair) and cannot notice any diference what-so-ever when I click it down to 1333...

So I wouldn't worry too much, I only got the 2133 because everything else was out of stock. Unless the price diference is trivial I wouldn't bother getting anything o er 1600.

I might be misunderstanding the place of RAM in the process chain, RAM on the market today is almost never going to be bottlenecking your performance (unless of course you have not enough memory to run all the tasks you have going) so getting more and better ram is for the most part pointless.

8gig should be more than enough for normal gaming and I can't imagine anything higher than 1333 ever being slow enough that it bottlenecks your performance.

Well someone clearly knows their shit... lol

Maybe you can answer this question that I've been assuming the answer to for a long time:

Is RAM (assuming you have say DDR3 1333 MHZ or more) EVER going to bottleneck your gaming performance? If not, what tasks will faster RAM improve the performance of?

it's called google for 30 mins and you know it