Measuring Ram Usage.

[coliwob]

 

So, its easy enough to see how hard my CPU and GPU are working for a given task, but not so with ram. Is there any program/method I can use that will tell me how hard my memory is working rather than just how much is being used?

 

 

Thank you.

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windows task manager.....

[coliwob]

28 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

windows task manager.....

Only shows how much, not data transfer per second. I'm looking for a way to monitor how much of my ram's capacity for data transfer is being used.

 

Tho, I did find performance monitor as part of windows but I don't know if it has a solution.

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1 minute ago, coliwob said:

Only shows how much, not data transfer per second. I'm looking for a way to monitor how much of my ram's capacity for data transfer is being used.

 

Tho, I did find performance monitor as part of windows but I don't know if it has a solution.

Like measure the bandwidth? If so, AIDA64, tools tad at the top, cache and memory benchmark.

 

Cause either something is written to memory or not, like a hard drive. 

[coliwob]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Like measure the bandwidth? If so, AIDA64, tools tad at the top, cache and memory benchmark.

 

Cause either something is written to memory or not, like a hard drive. 

Yeah, I think thats what I'm looking for. I know what I want to measure, but the word for it just isn't coming out of my mouth. Yeah, measure how much bandwidth my computer is using. Prefereabally in a real world setting, like how we all monitor our CPU/GPU = though if I bottleneck problem with a bench mark, it probably translates to the real world. I'm having a just shy of 60fps problem in a game, and my cpu is working at around 75% (single cores jumping to 100% on occasion tho, but not continuously, and my GPU is a few generations ahead so I think its chillin in the back reading a book, havin a good time, so its not that.) figured, since my memory had a fairly slow clock, it might be that.

 

I'll take a look at Aida64.

thanks.

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2 minutes ago, coliwob said:

Yeah, I think thats what I'm looking for. I know what I want to measure, but the word for it just isn't coming out of my mouth. Yeah, measure how much bandwidth my computer is using. Prefereabally in a real world setting, like how we all monitor our CPU/GPU = though if I bottleneck problem with a bench mark, it probably translates to the real world. I'm having a just shy of 60fps problem in a game, and my cpu is working at around 75% (single cores jumping to 100% on occasion tho, but not continuously, and my GPU is a few generations ahead so I think its chillin in the back reading a book, havin a good time, so its not that.) figured, since my memory had a fairly slow clock, it might be that.

 

I'll take a look at Aida64.

thanks.

Yes you measure your default memory profile at 2133mhz. 

Then you enable your XMP/DOCP profile and measure again.

 

The difference will be in gains of the capable bandwidth of your memory.

Latency = lower is better. 

Bandwidth = higher is better. 

[coliwob]

2 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Yes you measure your default memory profile at 2133mhz. 

Then you enable your XMP/DOCP profile and measure again.

 

The difference will be in gains of the capable bandwidth of your memory.

Latency = lower is better. 

Bandwidth = higher is better. 

My memory is 1300 DDR3, so older machine, slower memory. Accidentally got the wrong speed. The whole thing I am tring o figure out is whether or not I should get some 1866 Sticks - no point if 1300 is adequate.

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53 minutes ago, coliwob said:

My memory is 1300 DDR3, so older machine, slower memory. Accidentally got the wrong speed. The whole thing I am tring o figure out is whether or not I should get some 1866 Sticks - no point if 1300 is adequate.

Well... It would be best to save up and upgrade the entire platform. Faster memory won't really make the PC much faster really. 

 

If you are using spinning drives, the best upgrade would be to SSD, if not, then the video card for gaming.

[coliwob]

55 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Well... It would be best to save up and upgrade the entire platform. Faster memory won't really make the PC much faster really. 

 

If you are using spinning drives, the best upgrade would be to SSD, if not, then the video card for gaming.

Yea, planning to upgrade the entire system once my work situation is stable, damned covid. GPU is probably not the bottleneck, GTX1070 on a FX-8350 so its ahead of the game. Just, I'm like 5-10% off of 60fps in one certain part of my game, and its bothering me.  Silly I know, but all this messing around with computers is probably more fun than actually playing with them sometimes. Was hoping upgrading from 1333MHz to 1866MHz (additionally, I have 2x1333 dims and 2x1600, so I wondered if that might also be an issue, I've heard that it'll run at the slowest speed, idk. Its also cheap memory)  might resolve the issue, I tried over clocking and the system didn't give me any more performance. It might be since a lot of mods are running the bottleneck might exist with the memory - GPU is at like 10%, cpu 7 cores in like 20-30% range and one core 60-80%, it seems like something else is holding it back. Idk. I'll take out the slower dimms tomorrow and have a closer look at everything, seems to me like that core should be slightly higher if I alter the memory situation, or not.

 

 

thanks again