[james888]

Originally Posted by HumanSmoke

This might give a reasonable answer to your question. The article (and the link within it to a previous article) give a pretty good overview of RAM in general.

And a review of this particular G.Skill Trident 2666C11 kit

No. I still don't really get it. I know memory is the buffer to the cpu, so you are able to feed the cpu faster. 8 logical cores doesn't seem to need that extra speed much. The benchmark showed pretty minimal increases in most aspects. So high loaded cpu's could use a bit faster ram. I could see a 64 core server setup needing fast ram.