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True! I realise that I left it unsaid in the numbers. Granted, herz for herz my DDR4 3600-CL16 had even better latencies than my DDR5 (4.44ns vs 5.00nz) - but for overall performance the speed then tends to make up for it (assuming a varied workload).

I've actively shopped for low latency RAM - within reasons, but have paid good premiums especially in DDR4 days. For DDR5, there can be surprisingly little price wise to differentiate e.g. CL30 or CL32, so whilst it may not offer the greatest of differences, if you're already paying e.g. $350 (AUD) for a kit at CL32 the improved latency might just be $20 more at the same speed.

(I see that things have moved on a bit from last September when I did my last upgrade; now we have CL32 at higher speeds, so maybe that's the go to now.)



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