RAM overkill?

[Michael Batten]

Good afternoon,

As I'm not techy it's a question about RAM.

Is something like the 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2133MHz (2x8GB) rather than Corsair Vengeance LED 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz perfectly fine for PS and LR, is the 3000MHz overkill for photo editing?

Thanks

 

[chuckles]

If it's truly a question about RAM then you can never have enough!

If it's about processing power and RAM, what's overkill today will certainly not be enough in 3 years time - just my observation over the last decade

 

[Michael Batten]

Thanks Barry that's very true, the cost is negligable anyway.

 

[Box Brownie]

AFAIK unless your motherboard supports either of those "speeds" you will be under clocking the RAM. No harm in that and of course could come in handy for a motherboard upgrade in due course.

Unless Adobe go gamey high speed ram is just not needed. FWIW I had a RAM failure and got new Crucial Ballistics but because my motherboard cannot run them at full speed it matters not

 

[ancient_mariner]

Both will be fine - just make sure that both are compatible with the rest of your system at the clock speed you wish to use..

 

[redsnappa]

In general use eg image editing you will not notice the difference between RAM modules of different speed ratings.

 

[Brazo]

High speed ram is for gaming. Photoshop won't tell the difference.

Unless you have a 'z' motherboard it will run at default 2133 anyway.