RAM Speed and Timings As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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1,139 words · ~5 min read
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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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