When I decided to build a new system in 2023, I couldn’t make heads or tails of 4 vs 5. Yeah, sure, it’s faster… but no one could really say what that meant in practical terms. I think techpowerup had one rudimentary benchmark for RAM but it was inconsequential.
So I just went with what was cheaper. I also dodged a bullet by getting the slightly cheaper 12700k instead of the newer and allegedly just as fast 13600kf…
When I decided to build a new system in 2023, I couldn’t make heads or tails of 4 vs 5. Yeah, sure, it’s faster… but no one could really say what that meant in practical terms. I think techpowerup had one rudimentary benchmark for RAM but it was inconsequential.
So I just went with what was cheaper. I also dodged a bullet by getting the slightly cheaper 12700k instead of the newer and allegedly just as fast 13600kf…