Has my ram been holding my computer back all these years? :s
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Maybe a little bit but probably not by enough to worry yourself over with a 1070/etc.
Phew. I jsut had this feeling that my system could have been underperforming quite a bit becuase the ram is slow. Im replacing the system soon.
Thank you. That's the first time I ever removed the ram since I bought the computer 5 or 6 years ago
Something else to make a little bit of money on.
It will be more than 5% albeit not much - BF4 for instance 1600CL7 to 2400CL11 is around 5-6% or so - at CL10 probably ~8%.
Ah fair enough, I think with most games it will be less though correct me if im wrong? I know certain games are more affected by memory speed than others.
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It'll be the CPU holding it back.
Yeah - some games it will be hardly anything some might be 5-10%. Won't be huge though as those CPUs are designed against 1600CL7 RAM and anything past that is quite small unless you are running some kind of mad SLI setup.
I'm glad I went 4820K and X79 instead of the consumer 4770/4790 options - quad channel memory and stuck a 6/12 Xeon in there and with a mild overclock it keeps up with the 2000 series Ryzen and still got another 8-10% in the tank OC wise.
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(Yes it does say Windows 10 - I'm using it to stability test my OCing setup rather than risk corrupting my Windows 7 install
)Yeah - some games it will be hardly anything some might be 5-10%. Won't be huge though as those CPUs are designed against 1600CL7 RAM and anything past that is quite small unless you are running some kind of mad SLI setup.
I'm glad I went 4820K and X79 instead of the consumer 4770/4790 options - quad channel memory and stuck a 6/12 Xeon in there and with a mild overclock it keeps up with the 2000 series Ryzen and still got another 8-10% in the tank OC wise.
https://valid.x86.fr/u28wd2
(Yes it does say Windows 10 - I'm using it to stability test my OCing setup rather than risk corrupting my Windows 7 install
Well I was clueless at the time. This time I know what to get (still not sure about the ram for my new build, but I have another thread open relation to that
)I'm still on a 2700K and 16GB of DDR3 1600
And a pair of R9 390 8GB in Crossfire
All these people with PC's newer than mine upgrading.
I'm one those guys now. Hanging onto their old hardware. No plan to upgrade yet...
Part of the reason I'm doing it is to get some money back on my old parts as I don't want to leave it too late and they are not worth anything.
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It depends on the prices. Paying loads for ram isnt worth it for a 2-5% performance boost. 3600 CL14 is the current sweet spot for price / performance and simply requires taking the current cheapo ballistix kits and increasing the voltage up to 1.45-1.5v.
3600 CL14 to even 4400 CL16 is like a 2% improvement. 4000+ at CL18 or more is just pointless.
But if you have a DDR3 motherboard still then you also have to factor in the full upgrade cost. Upgrading the motherboard just for better ram is simply no. The priority for a new motherboard is if you want a better CPU or even M.2 slots, not for ram.
And currently you would want to get the cheapest 3600 Mhz C16 ram and overvolt / overclock / tighten timings rather than paying more than double for 4000+ stuff.
3600 CL14 to even 4400 CL16 is like a 2% improvement. 4000+ at CL18 or more is just pointless.
But if you have a DDR3 motherboard still then you also have to factor in the full upgrade cost. Upgrading the motherboard just for better ram is simply no. The priority for a new motherboard is if you want a better CPU or even M.2 slots, not for ram.
And currently you would want to get the cheapest 3600 Mhz C16 ram and overvolt / overclock / tighten timings rather than paying more than double for 4000+ stuff.
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