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01-03-2021, 05:03 PM | #2 |
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Nah, your games aren't going to care what your RAM latency is. You wouldn't notice any difference in gaming. The more important factor is the speed frequency. 3200 is fine, but usually you can find 3400 or 3600 for the same price.
You don't want to mix up your CAS latency in your different RAM modules though. If you go with C15, all RAM modules should have identical C numbers. You probably know that, but I thought I should mention it. |
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01-03-2021, 05:38 PM | #3 | |
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01-03-2021, 07:04 PM | #4 |
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Well, to be honest you're not really going to notice the difference between 3200 and 3600 speed within gameplay either. Even though 3600 is going to run faster. I just mention it because they're usually about the same price.
RAM isn't really used much during gaming. Your GPU is doing the overwhelming majority of the work. If you run some kind of system monitor, you'll notice that your average game rarely even touches your RAM. When the GPU has all that awesome vRAM sitting there, it doesn't have much use for regular old RAM. |
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01-03-2021, 09:54 PM | #5 |
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Games do care what latency is in benchmarks. Real life it aint gonna matter for 2 fps.
c15 3200 ius faster than say.. c18 3600. Dont spend extra money for 1fps, get the fastest speed for value, prob c18 3600. |
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01-04-2021, 03:43 PM | #6 |
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I've been building PC's and oc'ing for about 15 years, and the only time I've actually witnessed RAM timings matter was with original DDR 1T vs 2T settings. Other than that, I've found ram timings to be a huge waste of time other than making sure the BIOS matches exactly what's written on the side of the memory stick.
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01-04-2021, 06:01 PM | #7 | |
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01-17-2021, 01:09 AM | #8 |
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01-17-2021, 10:41 AM | #9 | |
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01-18-2021, 10:03 PM | #10 |
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Little off topic but I have a ryzen cpu with ram that is supposed to be 3200 but for the life of me I can not get it to that speed and to still be stable. I feel like I just got a bad stick or something.
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01-19-2021, 07:35 PM | #11 |
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01-19-2021, 09:47 PM | #14 |
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What do you mean when you say you can't get it at that speed and be stable? What type of unstability are you talking about? Are you setting it to 3200 in the BIOS?
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01-20-2021, 07:42 AM | #15 | |
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Try giving it the tiniest amount of voltage |
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