Capacity matters more than speed for office work.

No, for general web browsing and office work, RAM capacity is far more important than speed.

Your computer doesn’t care how fast your RAM is if it doesn’t have enough of it. When you run out of memory, the system starts using your storage drive as slow, emergency RAM (that’s called swapping/paging), and everything drags. That’s the real performance killer — not the difference between 3200MHz and 3600MHz.

For spreadsheets, word docs, and a dozen browser tabs, 16GB of 2400MHz RAM will feel better than 8GB of 3600MHz RAM. Most office apps don’t even stress RAM speeds. Even 2666MHz is fine here. What matters is that you don’t run out.

If you’re building or upgrading a work machine, get enough capacity first (16GB is the sweet spot), then consider faster speeds only if the price difference is tiny. Otherwise, don’t overthink it.

Nobody ever complained that their Excel load time was 0.3 seconds slower.