Your opinion matters: Should I upgrade my RAM?

[KhaderKh]

Hi,

Currently i have 4x8GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance pro RGB 3200mhz 16-18-18-36 paird with Ryzen 5600x.

 

After hours of overclocking, tightening the timings and stress test i was able to get them to 3466mhz 16-19-19-32.

 

Is this good enough for Ryzen 5600x or should I upgrade to 3600mhz (cant afford higher frequency), any suggestions with suitable sets of RAM.

Thanks

[curiousmind34]

Don't go for the hassle of purchasing a kit of 3600mhz, from 3466 to 3600 the difference will be hard to notice with a benchmark and impossible to notice without a benchmark. Even if you need to scale it down to 3200mhz because it's not stable or whatever it's not worth the upgrade.

[tkitch]

getting faster RAM won't get you enough of a performance boost to matter.  Don't waste your money.

[Chris Pratt]

It's fine for a 5600X. It's a single CCD, so it's not as sensitive to RAM speed as something like a 5900X would be. Going faster would be a marginal improvement at best.

[YoungBlade]

The difference in clock speed between 3600 and 3466 is less than 4%, and the difference in performance would be even less than that. Unless your favorite thing to do with your computer is run benchmarks, there's no point in that upgrade. I'm sure you'd never notice the difference between the two in a blind test.

[Dedayog]

14 minutes ago, KhaderKh said:

Hi,

Currently i have 4x8GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance pro RGB 3200mhz 16-18-18-36 paird with Ryzen 5600x.

 

After hours of overclocking, tightening the timings and stress test i was able to get them to 3466mhz 16-19-19-32.

 

Is this good enough for Ryzen 5600x or should I upgrade to 3600mhz (cant afford higher frequency), any suggestions with suitable sets of RAM.

Thanks

Honestly, if money is that tight, just enjoy what you have.  3466 to 3600 is negligible and not even worth thinking about, let alone acting on.

 

 

[freeagent]

51 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

It's fine for a 5600X. It's a single CCD, so it's not as sensitive to RAM speed as something like a 5900X would be. Going faster would be a marginal improvement at best.

It’s more sensitive than a 5900X.. 5900X can’t hit the low latency that a 5600X can.. maybe if you shut down a CCD it will, but that defeats the purpose of having a 59.

 

Op, worth it is entirely up to you. The latency you have now is similar to my 3600XT with c14 and much higher speed. The lowest I have scored in windows is 49ns. 51-52ns is normal for me on 5600X. 54ns is about the norm for me on my 5900. And that is cheating a bit because 5900 hits higher core clocks.

[Chris Pratt]

8 minutes ago, freeagent said:

It’s more sensitive than a 5900X.. 5900X can’t hit the low latency that a 5600X can.. maybe if you shut down a CCD it will, but that defeats the purpose of having a 59.

 

Op, worth it is entirely up to you. The latency you have now is similar to my 3600XT with c14 and much higher speed. The lowest I have scored in windows is 49ns. 51-52ns is normal for me on 5600X. 54ns is about the norm for me on my 5900. And that is cheating a bit because 5900 hits higher core clocks.

I don't think you understood me. I wasn't talking at all about how low you can get latency or anything like that, just the fact that the 5600X doesn't actually need fast RAM like a 5900X.

[Mark Kaine]

Do you really need new Ram for a few more fps (if that) if everything else works fine? Is my opinion.

 

1 hour ago, KhaderKh said:

After hours of overclocking, tightening the timings and stress test i was able to get them to 3466mhz 16-19-19-32.

And what did you gain by doing that in measurable quantities, was it worth it compared to 3200 ?

[KhaderKh]

58 minutes ago, freeagent said:

It’s more sensitive than a 5900X.. 5900X can’t hit the low latency that a 5600X can.. maybe if you shut down a CCD it will, but that defeats the purpose of having a 59.

 

Op, worth it is entirely up to you. The latency you have now is similar to my 3600XT with c14 and much higher speed. The lowest I have scored in windows is 49ns. 51-52ns is normal for me on 5600X. 54ns is about the norm for me on my 5900. And that is cheating a bit because 5900 hits higher core clocks.

What ram to do you have scoring 52ns on 5600x?

[KhaderKh]

36 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Do you really need new Ram for a few more fps (if that) if everything else works fine? Is my opinion.

 

And what did you gain by doing that in measurable quantities, was it worth it compared to 3200 ?

On games i barely saw couple of frams (barely), on R20 and R23 maybe 2-4% increase in scores

[freeagent]

3 hours ago, Chris Pratt said:

I wasn't talking at all about how low you can get latency or anything like that, just the fact that the 5600X doesn't actually need fast RAM like a 5900X.

Everything benefits from fast ram.. 5900X doesn't need fast ram either, but its nice to have..