RAM suggestions for limited budget

[BillyBoy26]

Dear all,

Happy new year!

I have a limited budget (£50-£100) to upgrade my current rig with new RAM - my setup is:

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor, 3400 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
BaseBoard Product PRIME X370-PRO
GFX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

I currently have 2 sticks of RAM that are fairly dated (from Speccy):

Type Unknown
Size 16384 MBytes
Channels # Dual
DRAM Frequency 1064.1 MHz

I'm just looking to improve my current gaming performance - nothing radical, but something noticeable enough to warrant to new RAM. Do you have any recommendations and lastly would it be compatible with my other hardware?

Thanks so much!

 

[mickyflinn]

Looks like the memory is running at 2133mhz but let's see if its rated faster.

Download cpuz and check spd it should give you more info like model and max bandwith then report back mite just need setting xmp profile in the bios.

 

[Minstadave]

As above, would be good to see a picture of the modules or as above the CPU-Z report.

I'm not sure RAM is likely to make enough difference to gaming performance to be the best place to spend your money.

 

[BillyBoy26]

Hi Micky - appreciate the prompt reply! Here's an output from CPU-Z, does this help? (I'd not even thought about changing the setting in the BIOS to allow it to run faster)

SMBus address 0x52
Memory type DDR4
Module format UDIMM
Module Manufacturer(ID) TEAMGROUP Inc. (7F7F7F7FEF000000000000000000)
SDRAM Manufacturer (ID) Micron Technology (2C00000000000000000000000000)
Size 8192 MBytes
Max bandwidth DDR4-2400 (1200 MHz)
Max JEDEC DDR4-2133 (1066 MHz)
Part number TEAMGROUP-UD4-2400
Serial number 01043735
Manufacturing date Week 39/Year 17
Nominal Voltage 1.20 Volts
EPP no
XMP yes, rev. 2.0
AMP no
EXPO no

 

[mickyflinn]

Hi Micky - appreciate the prompt reply! Here's an output from CPU-Z, does this help? (I'd not even thought about changing the setting in the BIOS to allow it to run faster)

SMBus address 0x52
Memory type DDR4
Module format UDIMM
Module Manufacturer(ID) TEAMGROUP Inc. (7F7F7F7FEF000000000000000000)
SDRAM Manufacturer (ID) Micron Technology (2C00000000000000000000000000)
Size 8192 MBytes
Max bandwidth DDR4-2400 (1200 MHz)
Max JEDEC DDR4-2133 (1066 MHz)
Part number TEAMGROUP-UD4-2400
Serial number 01043735
Manufacturing date Week 39/Year 17
Nominal Voltage 1.20 Volts
EPP no
XMP yes, rev. 2.0
AMP no
EXPO no

Ok

The memory can be run at a faster speed 2400mhz , what you need to do is to go into the bios and find xmp profile and set it to that. Not sure how comfortable you are with that but download the motherboard manual to guide you, if not just leave it.

As for upgrade I think your cpu is a getting old and a new 5600 woyld be a decent upgrade then you can move to faster memory . You would need to update the bios on the motherboard to take a 5600 but wpuld be worth it and selling your old cpu to offset the cost.

 

[BillyBoy26]

Thanks all - Micky, really appreciate the feedback. Will give it a go with the BIOS settings being changed and will definitely consider an upgrade on the CPU. Can't believe I've been running at a slower speed all these years!

 

[BillyBoy26]

Hi Micky - I've changed the setting in the BIOS, pretty sure it's all saved to run at 2400 mhz now, it was on auto before - is there anything I can do to check it's definitely been set as such? Cheers!

 

[mickyflinn]

Thanks all - Micky, really appreciate the feedback. Will give it a go with the BIOS settings being changed and will definitely consider an upgrade on the CPU. Can't believe I've been running at a slower speed all these years!

Your welcome.

It mite make a small diffrence gainng a few more fps but the cpu is I would seriously consider there have been big gains in performance over your 1700x.

Don't update the bios until you definately get the 5600 in your hand as you may loose support for your older 1700x.

Lets is no how you get on.

Check memory in cpuz
Or speccy it should say 1200mhz but it's double date memory so × 2 = 2400mhz.

I'm off to bed goodnight.

 

[Minstadave]

Did you get a chance to check CPU-Z?

Your best bet for an upgrade is likely to be CPU/GPU and lastly RAM to my mind.

I can't see that your motherboard ever got Zen 3 support by the looks of it so you may be limited to 3xxx CPUs.

Edit:

Seems you can get 5xxx CPUs working on your board, it's just not mentioned in the BIOS notes, you need BIOS 6026 onwards, latest is 6042:

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