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Sandy Bridge Memory Scaling

Post Date: 2011-07-26
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Dragoonseal View Drop Down
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    Posted: 26 Jul 2011 at 7:11am
I noticed this over at Anandtech.com, a review of the performance effects different speed memory has on Sandy Bridge systems.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3

It was well known that 1600MHz CAS9 was the sweet spot for memory on the X58 platform, faster memory costing vastly more but offering almost no performance gain. Not that we've ever seen any evidence to suggest it was any different for Sandy Bridge systems, but it's nice to see a review to confirm it none the less. And we can always point people to it for an easy quick explanation of why not to spend hundreds of extra dollars on fancy 2000MHz+ memory sticks, especially when it comes to gaming.
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read that article when it was posted its a good read.
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Ya saw it too, good read

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