Is my ram too slow?

[Protongog]

Advice please. I have bought a part built Ryzen 1700 which only had options for 2133 MHz ram, I bought 32gb for video editing, Photoshop and Aftereffects as well as gaming. Do I need to replace the ram with 3200Mhz as I am now aware this has a large effect on the Ryzen CPU performance.

[ARikozuM]

You don't have to, but you should. The only issue is that Ryzen has rank issues and most 16GB kits are DR meaning that you'll be limited to a certain speed after adding one stick. Add two 8GB sticks (one per channel) and you'll get faster speed. If you fill the slots, you'll be lowering your speed again for the sake of stability. 

 

@MageTank can explain more than I can.

[Mooshi]

27 minutes ago, Protongog said:

Advice please. I have bought a part built Ryzen 1700 which only had options for 2133 MHz ram, I bought 32gb for video editing, Photoshop and Aftereffects as well as gaming. Do I need to replace the ram with 3200Mhz as I am now aware this has a large effect on the Ryzen CPU performance.

You're not getting 32gb of ram to run at 3200mhz with that memory controller. It's all about capacity at this point. If you can OC to 2400, it'd be good enough.

[H0R53]

32 minutes ago, Protongog said:

Advice please. I have bought a part built Ryzen 1700 which only had options for 2133 MHz ram, I bought 32gb for video editing, Photoshop and Aftereffects as well as gaming. Do I need to replace the ram with 3200Mhz as I am now aware this has a large effect on the Ryzen CPU performance.

RAM speed does not matter for common applications. Sure, it helps a little with gaming to help the game's initial load, but once the game is loaded most loading is done in the background anyway, so you won't notice it.

 

The only time I noticed a difference in performance with RAM was from 800MHz DDR2 to 1600MHz DDR3.

 

Fallout 4 is one of the few games I can think of that really cares about RAM speed. You'll be getting maybe 5 frames at most with DDR4 overclocking.

 

So the answer to your initial question of "Is my RAM too slow" is 'no'.

[Larus]

I found changing from 1866 to 2400 ram got me about 10% extra performance when running somewhat ram intensive simulations

[done12many2]

15 minutes ago, H0R53 said:

RAM speed does not matter for common applications. Sure, it helps a little with gaming to help the game's initial load, but once the game is loaded most loading is done in the background anyway, so you won't notice it.

 

The only time I noticed a difference in performance with RAM was from 800MHz DDR2 to 1600MHz DDR3.

 

Fallout 4 is one of the few games I can think of that really cares about RAM speed. You'll be getting maybe 5 frames at most with DDR4 overclocking.

 

So the answer to your initial question of "Is my RAM too slow" is 'no'.

 

What you're saying is somewhat relevant to Intel based platforms, but with Ryzen, RAM speed does indeed matter greatly in things other than gaming.