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a quick memory can be really useful for lots of things whether you're trying to

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find your way to a restaurant sing along to that song at a karaoke bar or

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remember who won the presidential election in 1880 because you've got 50

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bucks on the line at a trivia game or

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something anyway but what about having quick memory in your computer although

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knowing how much memory to put in your PC is usually pretty straightforward the

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topic of memory speed is is more of a

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mystery so how much then does it actually matter well it helps to know

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what those numbers on your memory modules mean similarly to your CPU all

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RAM or Random Access Memory has a clock speed which corresponds to how much data

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throughput it can handle each second but in addition to clock speed memory also

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has timings which are typically expressed as a string of numbers like

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999 24 these numbers are measures of

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latency which in this case is the number

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of those clock cycles per second that it

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takes for your RAM to do things like access certain pieces of data so shorter

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timings will mean faster performance so

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together the clock speed and the timings will determine exactly how fast your RAM

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will operate and like with a CPU or a

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video card you can also overclock your RAM by cranking up the megahertz and

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giving it a little bit more voltage but

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unlike processor overclocking which typically gives small but noticeable

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performance gains getting the fastest memory possible for your system is often

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dismissed as a waste of money by many

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enthusiasts but why would that be then I mean isn't faster always better when it

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comes to computer components the short answer is yes but in the real world

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faster RAM typically will only give you very very small performance boosts that

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you probably won't be able to notice unless you're using very specialized

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benchmarking software you see modern memory has lots of bandwidth and can

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often handle more data flowing in and out than many programs are anywhere near

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capable of using so similarly to how you usually won't get more FPS in your games

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by plugging your graphics card into a faster PCI Express lot spending more

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money on topend memory won't usually translate to noticeable improvements in

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your programs but as with most things in the computer World there are exceptions

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to the rule and faster memory can be very useful in certain situations on the

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server side of things you can use it as a cache so you can take data that's on

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your main storage and make it so it can be accessed much much faster you can

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learn more about that here or you can use it for many many virtual computers

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all at the same time so even if each of them only requires a fraction of the

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bandwidth between them all they can use nearly Limitless amounts of memory

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bandwidth that's called virtualization and you can learn more about that here

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on the desktop side of things though the examples are fewer and further between

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but they're definitely are some like for example if you're running one of AMD's

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Apu processors because onboard Graphics

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use your main system memory as video RAM

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unlike a discrete graphics card which has its own separate RAM on the board

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there's a lot more information going to and from your system memory when you're

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gaming so faster memory can give a real

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boost in your frame rates with that said if you aren't running an APU it's

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usually a better idea to focus your money on things other than raw speed

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when buying memory such as buying from a reputable brand with a good warranty

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because lower quality RAM can cause lots of inexplicable errors that can leave

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you tearing your hair out when you're trying to figure out what the heck is wrong WR with your rig even buying

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aesthetically pleasing RAM modules that fit in well with the rest of your

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computer is in my opinion a better idea than going for the highest possible

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speed so then unless you're buying the slowest most Bargain Basement memory you

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can find you probably won't have to worry too much about RAM speeds that is

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to say unless you're trying to shoot for some kind of an overclocking record in

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which case your bigger worry might be trying not to freeze your hands off with

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