Worth upgrading ram?

Vidar · 28 Dec 2019 at 19:16

So I'm currently running 16gb of Gigabyte Aorus ram at 3200Mhz, the Samsung B-die kit and have some money to burn... will I see much of a performance difference in going to a higher speed on a 9900k? I'll be looking at going to 32gb so I've got all my slots populated if I go for it while prices are low...

Which kits are recommended?

bledd · 28 Dec 2019 at 22:20

3200 c14 ram is slightly quicker, but won't be worth the price of replacing existing.

If you want 32gb, I'd just match what you have

Vidar · 29 Dec 2019 at 14:14

bledd said:
3200 c14 ram is slightly quicker, but won't be worth the price of replacing existing.

If you want 32gb, I'd just match what you have

Struggling to find a matching set of the Samsung bdie kit at a reasonable price

Cooper · 29 Dec 2019 at 15:55

Don't waste your money...the benefits of faster RAM over 3000Mhz are tiny, as in completely imperceptible in actual use.

Sure you'll see a few extra points in certain benchmarks, but you'll only have the numbers to tell you it was actually faster.

...adding just an extra 100Mhz to your CPU and/or GPU will give you better returns on your money.

MaXxBoulton · 29 Dec 2019 at 16:22

do you need 32gb over the 16gb you have?

if not then no dont change the kit

Cooper · 29 Dec 2019 at 16:50

MaXxBoulton said:
do you need 32gb over the 16gb you have?

i

Well, my reasoning in getting 32GB was simple (when 16GB would have been enough)... it may not be needed now but I keep my PC's for 3-5yrs and it 'will' be needed eventually in that time frame and it may not be as cheap again. DDR4 RAM prices can & have doubled in only 3-6mths.

Get it while its cheap.

nomadd · 30 Dec 2019 at 09:15

Vidar said:
So I'm currently running 16gb of Gigabyte Aorus ram at 3200Mhz, the Samsung B-die kit and have some money to burn... will I see much of a performance difference in going to a higher speed on a 9900k? I'll be looking at going to 32gb so I've got all my slots populated if I go for it while prices are low...

Which kits are recommended?

I used a Corsair Dominator PC3200 32GB (2 x 16GB) kit in my 9900K build. Been very happy with it. I run a lot of VMs for development work, so needed the capacity. In Aida64, it's about 50GB/s speed; I'd imagine yours is similar.

Unless you need the extra ram capacity, I'd say just stick with what you have; any slight improvement in latency is unlikely to be noticeable in the real-world (and the 9900K isn't anywhere near as sensitive to memory speed as Ryzen.)

Save you pennies for a better graphics card (etc.) in the future.

MaXxBoulton · 30 Dec 2019 at 10:56

Cooper said:
Well, my reasoning in getting 32GB was simple (when 16GB would have been enough)... it may not be needed now but I keep my PC's for 3-5yrs and it 'will' be needed eventually in that time frame and it may not be as cheap again. DDR4 RAM prices can & have doubled in only 3-6mths.

Get it while its cheap.

Before 32gb is needed for gaming and daily used will we be on ddr5, it's not too fair away now this ddr5 will land

Cooper · 30 Dec 2019 at 13:43

MaXxBoulton said:
Before 32gb is needed for gaming and daily used will we be on ddr5, it's not too fair away now this ddr5 will land

I'll need 32GB long before I'll even think about upgrading to a DDR5 based system, I mean, I was on DDR3 until mid 2019!

MaXxBoulton · 30 Dec 2019 at 14:04

If just for games I dont think you will, 8gb to 16gb was not a big jump 8gb still works for games now so jumping to 32gb is massive.

Vidar · 30 Dec 2019 at 18:34

I've managed to get a 2nd kit, B grade from here and talked the price down quite a bit...

MaXxBoulton · 30 Dec 2019 at 19:50

Vidar said:
I've managed to get a 2nd kit, B grade from here and talked the price down quite a bit...

Grate stuff, yep they let you haggle over B-grade stuff,