Upgrading from 12gb to 24gb ram. Is it worth it?

Hey all,
I've got After Effects CS5 (The whole Production Premium actually) along with a i7 930, 12gb ram, GTS 250 1gb, 3 WD Black HDs, and things just seem bogged down in AE as well as switching to Premiere then obviously using Dynamic link. I've got 3 processors at work with 2gb each in the MP settings and the rest of the ram / processors for other applications. I'm trying not to starve the system or used cores of ram as suggested. I've also setup my HDs the way Adobe has suggested with program on 1 HD, cache/scratch on another, and output on another.
Of course each person uses AE differently. But my work is 720p max or less usually working with 3D space, particle effects, and so on. Clips are 30 seconds or so max.
With all that background out of the way, would I see a nice performance boost by doubling my ram to 24gb? I would want to leave say 8gb ram for other apps, and then have 2-3gb per core for After Effects (whereever that leaves me). Would this be worth it? Again, things seem very slow. I feel like my ram preview should be faster and switching from AE to Premiere just lags big time. And yes, I've decreased ram previews res, size, framerate, but I hopefully don't have to have as much sacrifice in these areas if I have more ram.
This is the ram BTW I was thinking of getting:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231357
Any thoughts or experiences after upgrading to 24gb would be greatly appreciated.

> Is there any noticable difference with memory that has a faster clock
speeds or less latency values, or is it all pretty much the same for
After Effects?
I haven't done a lot of comparative tests.
There is no one generalization that applies to speed with After Effects. There are too many variables to give simple answers.
At the risk of stating the obvious, faster things are better; slower things are worse.
If the speed of getting data to and from RAM is the bottleneck, then faster RAM will be better.

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