Which DDR4 Ram Kit Should I Buy from Amazon

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  scrimshaw on 01/02/2024 - 19:48

  Your CPU is the bottleneck and is holding back your GPU. It's not the RAM, if you want better minimum framerates (i.e. you want to get rid of those random hitches and slow-downs) you'll need to upgrade the CPU.

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    tanksinatra on 01/02/2024 - 22:34

    I've been wondering about that. I'm not totally convinced tbh. I'm gaming at 4K and Hogwarts is a very GPU bound game.

    The 5800X3D is about 65% faster in synthetic benchmarks, but that mostly comes apparent in heavily multithreaded applications where the extra two cores give it an advantage. In single threaded workloads they are pretty close.

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      scrimshaw on 02/02/2024 - 00:12

      I haven't played Hogwarts in a while, but I played it on a RTX 3070 (that only has 8GB VRAM), 16GB DDR4 with a Ryzen 5900x, on a WQHD monitor (1440p)

      With some careful optimisations (see this guide you can make the game run better and eliminate most of the stuttering. If you're willing to make a few sacrifices to the visual fidelity you'll get much more playable frame-rates.

      One of the reason it chews up your RAM is because of VRAM spillover — when your settings are so high that you exceed the 12GB VRAM buffer of your GPU, normal system RAM gets used instead. The game is notorious for requiring large amounts of VRAM — 14GB being sort of the minimum if you play with Ray Tracing turned on.

      https://steamcommunity.com/app/990080/discussions/0/37892547…

      System RAM is much slower than VRAM, so regardless of whether you have 16 or 32GB, the moment you run out of VRAM and start depending on system RAM you'll notice those stutters and hitches.

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  BoltThrower on 01/02/2024 - 20:10

  +2

  That game has horrible optimization. While you'll benefit from 32gb (The game can take up 17gb of RAM), you should check if making adjustments to Vsync and the shader cache do help.
  https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotterGame/search?q=stuttering…

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    tanksinatra on 01/02/2024 - 22:26

    +1

    Yeah that's what I was thinking. My SATA SSD is pretty slow so I think when Hogwarts runs low on ram it starts to pause for a brief moment. I'm planning on upgrading to a NVME SSD as well.

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  Sinnerator on 02/02/2024 - 09:22

  op try playing with graphics settings in the game first to see if that helps, the game could just have crap optimisation, but if you got the cash a 5800x3d would be 'nice

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  jk82 on 02/02/2024 - 15:22

  +1

  This is great RAM, especially for $109. just enable XMP in your bios to get the 3200 speed. CL16time is ace for DDR4

  https://www.amazon.com.au/Corsair-Vengeance-PC4-25600-Deskto…

  obviously don't keep your existing sticks, just use these - 32gb will be plenty

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    tanksinatra on 03/02/2024 - 09:26

    Thanks! is it worth going 3200mhz CL16 or 3600mhz CL18?

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      jk82 on 04/02/2024 - 09:24

      They’re effectively the same thing

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        tanksinatra on 04/02/2024 - 11:56

        ok i'll go with the cheaper one.