Quake III is know for loving high bus speeds, but as we can see here, it also likes to have good quality ram to play with too. It seems like you would get an extra 10 fps just by using CL2 RAM! Let's try another demo that's a little more stressful. It's nVidia's "nv15demo".

Again, here you would get about 2-3 extra fps across the board when using CAS 2 ram. It's amazing that there is an 11.1 fps difference between the 12x100 CL3 setting to the 8x150 CL2!

Here's the question now… Does the performance of the ram justify its higher price? If you're not a power user, then I guess you would be happy with the generic PC-133 ram. It's cheap and does the job. For someone more like myself, these numbers would easily sway my decision when buying RAM. I mean, it was only $30CDN more per DIMM and the performance speaks for itself.

Remember this when buying anything, you get what you pay for!