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You are right.
It is true that the ratio frequency / timings is generally more favorable at high speeds.
For my part I am limited to the DDR3 for the moment.
And DDR 3 we shall...
Hardware & Technical The frequency of the RAM
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And DDR 3 we shall...
These days it really comes down to what GPU you have inside the hood. GPU's are what powers the gaming and the other bits do not make much of a difference if you are at least an I5. A 1080ti is basically the cost of a playstation 4 nearly 3 times over. I would suggest 16GB or ram (whatever your mb supports (frequency won't make a huge difference)) 16GB seems like the standard these days. Example: I have had the same I7 for 4 years now and I could never run the game in 4K until I purchased a 1080ti and now it runs in 4k smooth. Higher freqency ram wont increase frame rates, it will just load things a bit faster but hardly noticeable. The biggest game changer for me in the past few years wasn't ram, processor, it was SSD. I would only upgrade the ram frequency if I were buying a brand new motherboard and processor, otherwise its a waste of money.
The reason that I say this is because a few years ago I was testing 2 servers which one had traditional hard drives and the other one had RAM as the virtual hard drive. Graphics performance was exactly the same but loading times was faster on the RAM drives which was as expected. However this was a server with very expensive RAM (140GB). So, say 16 or 32GB of RAM you really aren't going to see much of a difference by upping the frequency slightly.
Just wanted to give my opinion on this.
So to sum it up: I wouldn't bother unless you are going to invest in a new MB , Processor. Please don't think that I am trying to act like I know it all, because I don't. I am just speaking from my own experience in this particular area.
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FWIW, the only thing I have ever managed to do by changing RAM speed or timings is make the system unstable or stop it booting altogether
The difference between stock XMP timings and my current manual timings on the memory I'm using in my main desktop is about 25-30% in bandwidth and latency benchmarks at the same memory frequency, and a much less dramatic, but still frequently tangible increase in more general app performance.
Of course, I spend an inordinate amount of time fiddling and testing, to the point where if fiddling and testing wasn't a hobby I did for it's own sake, I'd be way better off leaving things alone.
25% sounds like it's worth chasing! I think I gave up fiddling with RAM settings about the same time Mushkin discontinued their Redline range. Guess I should head over to my BIOS screen later and have a play.
There is a lot to be said for trying stuff out and experimenting, I'm a big fan of that kind of thing and have plenty of failed projects to prove it
It also depends on the brand of RAM.
The Corsair Vengeance Pro Serie is known to be very easily overcloked.
I read on a test site that 600 Mhz more was done very easily.
For my part, as I said it, I increased 400 Mhz very easily and without changing the voltage.
25% sounds like it's worth chasing! I think I gave up fiddling with RAM settings about the same time Mushkin discontinued their Redline range. Guess I should head over to my BIOS screen later and have a play.
There is a lot to be said for trying stuff out and experimenting, I'm a big fan of that kind of thing and have plenty of failed projects to prove it
Yes it is a pleasant thing if the material is planned for this.
However to make tests it's good, but to stay constantly on these boosted parameters is debatable.
"Overclocking" or "enthusiast" memory is often the least overclockable.
All the major retail memory brands heavily bin (they get a pile of ICs of the same model and then retest them, using the most exceptional samples in the most expensive SKUs) their higher-end parts so that they can optimize profit. There is almost always still some headroom, but you have a much better chance of getting more than you pay for with lower-end modules, or OEM parts, that were never binned except by the IC maker.
Most people will just spend x amount on the memory speed they are looking for, set the XMP profile and go.
I'll buy a dozen refurbished budget OEM modules, test them all myself, send back the four that were DOA, the half-dozen lemon-to-mediocre ones, and keep the best four.
All the major retail memory brands heavily bin (they get a pile of ICs of the same model and then retest them, using the most exceptional samples in the most expensive SKUs) their higher-end parts so that they can optimize profit. There is almost always still some headroom, but you have a much better chance of getting more than you pay for with lower-end modules, or OEM parts, that were never binned except by the IC maker.
Most people will just spend x amount on the memory speed they are looking for, set the XMP profile and go.
I'll buy a dozen refurbished budget OEM modules, test them all myself, send back the four that were DOA, the half-dozen lemon-to-mediocre ones, and keep the best four.