Price Drop on Selected G.Skill DDR4 Kits
Ripjaws V DDR4-3200MHz CL16-18-18-38 1.35v 16GB Was $140, Now $115
Trident Z RGB DDR4-3200MHz CL16-18-18-38 1.35V 32GB (2x16GB) Was $300, Now $266
All Kits have a $9 Nationwide Standard Delivery Cost (based off weight)
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OP
Dual-channel doesn't change much for gaming FPS, but in loading times and all other memory-intensive tasks dual-channel does give huge improvements.
And if you're using a GPU that uses your DRAM, then dual-channel does help hugely for that as well.
dual channel gives a lot of FPS increase especially with ryzen CPUs…
Yes, this is true if your GPU is not your bottleneck.
OP, what is your GPU?
@get-innocuous: I think you would get maybe 2% higher FPS, and then maybe like 5% increase performance to productivity/loading times.
This is based off benchmarks/comparisons I've read.
It would be cool if you could buy it and let us know your results :)
All of the above are wrong, it does almost nothing in most scenarios.
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1349-ram-how-dual-channel…
Most people also write crazy BS about RAM speed when it makes almost no difference. People forgoe having faster CPU and GPU to have faster RAM that does almost nothing.
Not true especially since the advent of ddr4 ram. I think you're still stuck in the ddr3 era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP9F0h7qP_g for Ryzen CPUs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUAr5jnQq58 for Intel CPUs
That's very hard to interpret given there's constantly changing numbers but it appears to show what I said which is almost no difference in between RAM speeds.
That's regarding the RAM speed improvement, dual channel memory is much less improvement.
@Diji1: It clearly states the avg fps at the end of each game. The difference can be the same as going from a 5700 to a 5700xt in CPU intensive games. Honestly, it's also just benchmarking which all reviewers use.
I agree that under 5% difference is basically nothing, but over that is worth considering.
Here is a good comparison of SC vs DC and 2133MHz vs 3200Mhz. Start at 6:14. And I would ignore the 720p slides.
https://youtu.be/u827fdCOCao?t=374
End of the day it matters little except for those chasing a PC's ultimate specs, it's the MHz us commoners really require.
meh 2400mhz
Not everyone has to chase clock speed. 2400 matches my CPU.
what CPU is that?
@[Deactivated]: 5960X on number crunching duty. The more RAM, the faster the calculation. And stability is more important than overclocking records.
Yes, it is slow and ancient and only 16 threads. But I cannot afford an Epyc or Xeon MPs.
RAM speed makes almost no difference to real world performance and you should be buying 2133 (or whatever is cheapest) and spending the saving on CPU or GPU which actually realise real world performance increases.
meh unless you have a really old cpu it does matter especially for new ryzen
@[Deactivated]: Yeah it matters, just not as much as buying a higher CPU or GPU.
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3508-ryzen-3000-memory-be…
@Diji1: With the $50 you're saving vs a 3200mhz $200 kit you're not going to get 10% more performance that you're gaining from buying a 3200mhz kit lol unless you have a low end PC in which case why even have 32gb ram
can anyone recommend to upgrade?
my specs are i7-7700, motherboard Asus Prime B250M-A and current memory 16GB DDR4 2133mhz, RTX 2080 8GB.
just for gaming, adobe premier, after effects.
would i see much of a difference in performance for those tasks between 2133 and 3000-3200?
thanks all.
Is taking advantage of multi channel memory actually a significant performance improvement or is it more of an old wive's tale thing? I currently have one of these 16GB sticks in my PC and the amount of memory I have isn't really an issue - only Anno gets close to it - but this is probably a reasonable time to get a second stick if there is an advantage (ITX board so only two RAM slots).