Review: G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3-1,866MHz RAM on Intel and AMD systems

Heavy loading and gaming - AMD

Gaming

It seems ironic that a relatively low-cost PC would benefit from high-speed RAM. Simply switching out RAM gives us an extra six per cent performance in Just Cause 2. The reason for this lies with the onboard graphics using system memory as the frame-buffer, where faster speeds genuinely increase performance.