Benchmarks - lots of gaming
Focussing more on gaming, 3DMark 11, meanwhile, doesn't care about the memory subsystem.
The trio of real-world games all take a performance hit - up to 15 per cent - when tampering with the number of modules. More importantly for this review, DDR3-2,133 memory produces a minor, imperceptible increase over cheaper DDR3-1,600 RAM. But you already knew that, right?