How much difference between 1333mhz and 2000mhz?

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Apart from the obvious 667mhz, how much performance difference is there between PC3-10600 and PC3-16000? and why are some sets double or triple the price of others of the same speed?
 
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On triple channel single socket boards, very little. The bandwidth is ridiculous enough at any speed. It's likely to matter more with P55, though still not anything to lose sleep over I suspect.

Latency matters with ram, 1600mhz at cl12 is crap but at cl6 is excellent. Latency doesn't actually matter that much either, since again bandwidth is ludicrous anyway. Below 10-10-10 would be a good idea.

For x58 i7, I think the ideal spot is 1600mhz cl8, but this is probably quicker than I'd notice any difference,

If you want the obvious answer, some cost 3 times as much because people will pay three times as much for slightly better numbers. :)
 
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