Worth the upgrade?

[Johnsenish]

So here i am, thinking my 7 year old RAM sticks is getting old, am i wrong?

Currently my PC houses this ram;

Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000MHz 16GB
2x8GB (PC4-24000) CL15, XMP2.0

I am no pC genius, and thats why i ask.

Just ordered a 5900x, and read some quick topics regarding u actually having a boost in performance on earlier zens when coupled with newer ram.
Is this the case on 5900x too? according to those basic ram comparison sites i only get about 6-7% effective speed increase on newer sticks so i dunno. 

Love to get the most out of my system .

 

[Coachdude]

I'd honestly lean toward no. 3000 MHz is baseline nowadays, but it's still enough to get "most" of the performance out of Ryzen, 5th gen especially. If you do however, I'd upgrade to 32 gigs of 3600MHz, that way you're getting an upgrade in both capacity and speed. Anything short of that though and I'd just keep what you have. Just my two cents. 

[light-v]

Do bear in mind that memory speed only marginally affect gaming performance and the difference is reduced to basically nothing when playing at anything higher than 1080p or with a midrange GPU. 

 

For productivity, RAM speeds sometimes affects performance, sometimes doesn't so I'd suggest doing some research on  the programs you are using