Suspecting RAM bottleneck

[AlfonsLM]

I do get random frezes in eg. firefox regulary and I don't think that my hardwear is to slow to brows wikipedia on. (I did poste screen shots on it)

 

I will replace that 250Gb Samsung HDD to a SSD when I get around to do it.

[Emanbaird]

With your resources you shouldn't have any issues with ram, 

I'm assuming this is either a single core performance issue or a software one. 

 

 

[AlfonsLM]

You can probebly not se that. I have one RAM per CPU

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id take the hdd out. Having a hdd as max load won't help, and thats a old drive too. Waiting for io can just slow the whole system down.

[Fasauceome]

5 minutes ago, AlfonsLM said:

You can probebly not se that. I have one RAM per CPU

Do you mean 1GB of ram per 1 thread? Even still, that doesn't intrinsically present a bottleneck.

 

@Emanbaird is right, the performance depends on more than just ram per thread, because you have many resources.

[Emanbaird]

Yeah because i've had builds with 12t 64gb of ram, and i've had builds with 32 threads and 16gb of ram, albeit completely different hardware.

 

But depending on the workload on the 16 machine we were only using maybe 8-9gb of ram in apps like blender, however the higher speed ram did help immensely, also does the ram you have support higher speeds than base? it looks like its running at the stock 2133hz, most ram i've been able to get upwards of 2600mhz with increased voltage on even the lowest end sticks.

 

Also have you tried running a stability test for your memory? 

[AlfonsLM]

@fasauceome I have two 16Gb RAM and two CPUs and I have run windows memory test and they have ECC and have a max at 2133hz

[Emanbaird]

If your motherboard supports it you may notice an increase in performance with getting two more 16gb sticks and running quad channel, do you know if the board can do quad channel?

 

[AlfonsLM]

I might have spoted the isue. The disk activity on the bad HDD did peek before a freze so it might be that windows use it for page files

[AlfonsLM]

I have plans on bying a Optane and dubel my ram

[Emanbaird]

Yeah if it's caching to a hdd that could cause slowdowns, you have so much ram tbh you might want to disable pagefile entirely lol

[AlfonsLM]

Stuff starts to crach then like cities skyline that uses more than 32 gig

[AlfonsLM]

Cities skyline did stop laginng after I replaced the broken HDD with the SSD so problem solved