Has my ram been holding my computer back all these years? :s

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I just checked my ram for the first time ever as I never really looked into ram much other than I have 16gb of it.

I have 2 x 8GB 1G x 64-Bit DDR3-1600CL10.

Asus Z97K motherboard

I74790 (non k)

GTX1070.

 

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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.

 

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Maybe a 5% performance hit in some games vs fast DDR3. Most of the time I'd expect less.

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.

 

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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 )

 

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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.