I've done a lot of overclocking over the years and for memory, this is my take: If you can get faster memory, for not much more money, and it doesn't take much more voltage to run at that speed (which would generate more heat and require more cooling), then it might be worth doing. If the cost doubles and the performance only goes up a fraction, then don't bother.
You have to consider that the memory is just part of the overall performance equation. Even if the memory at a 50% faster bus speed, it won't make your entire computer performance 50% faster. It might only make it 2% faster, overall, because of other performance limiters, like the CPU, the graphics card, the hard drive, etc. Sometimes, you go through all this trouble to get those couple percentage points of "real-world" performance improvements, but it takes a lot of time or money or hassle or crashing to get those few percentage points. Chris On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Greg Donald <gdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Chris McQuistion > <cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: > > > > If you are a super-performance enthusiast with money to burn, then yes, > overclocked memory is worth the extra cost, > > When you tried it, did it seem worth 2-times the cost? > > For example, 1300MHz ram is being over-clocked to 2000MHz, and then > sold with an O.C. label on it for about twice the price. > > > extra heat, increased chance of instability, and extra cooling that may > be required. > > If those things sound like bad things to you (as they do me) then > overclocked memory is probably not worth it. > > Yes, these things seem questionable to me too. The thing is, all > these hardware vendors are selling the ram over-clocked at the time of > purchase. If the manufacturers and vendors are promoting over-clocked > hardware, then is it less risky? > > I'm leaning towards the regular lower speed ram, just curious what the > others were doing. > > > -- > Greg Donald > http://destiney.com/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
