Sandy Bridge memory performance tested value of expensive top shelf memory questioned

[RuggedPro]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/sandy-bridge-memory-performance-tested-value-of-expensive-top-s/

Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset hasn't exactly had a flawless launch, but let's move past that and take a look at how well it performs before it starts breaking. One of the improvements here is meant to be better memory performance, and The Tech Report ran a variety of sticks through the gamut to see what the benefits of high-cost, high-speed memory is versus the cheaper stuff. The results showed that, in the vast majority of cases, DDR3-1333MHz memory was barely outclassed by the DDR3-2133MHz stuff, exhibiting only a modest improvement in games, just a couple FPS at most. Lesson learned? Save your pennies -- or go ahead and spend 'em elsewhere, like that new Thermaltake case.

 

[Hellhammer]

This doesn't really relate to Sandy Bridge as it's the same case with any chipset or CPU. Memory bandwidth is not the bottleneck, thus it doesn't matter whether you have 2133MHz or 1333MHz memory because something else is slowing down the system.