3000Mhz vs 3200Mhz

[Daniel81]

Hi everyone,

 

Hope all is good.

 

Quick question, I found 128GB of RAM (Fury Beast 32GB x 4 at 3000Mhz) my question is, how much of a performance loss there is between 3000Mhz and 3200Mhz, as the cheapest deal I can find for 128GB at 3200Mhz is around £550 and the Fury Beast are at around £350?

 

Current machine specs are:
MoBo: Asus Rog Strix B550 F Wifi

RAM: 32GB HyperX Predator 3200Mhz (this RAM will be transferred to another machine to be used on a 65" TV for gaming and Media)

CPU: Ryzen 5950x
GPU: RTX 3090

Storage: Samsung 980 - 500Gb M.2 for OS
               Samsung 980 - 1TB M.2 for work in progress files (videos/photos)

               Samsung 960 QVO - 2TB For program/games installation 
PSU: Corsair RM 1000x

PC is used for everyday stuff, some gaming, some video(FHD and 4K))/photo editing.

 

Nothing is overclocked at the moment

I know that probably CPU would benefit from 3600Mhz RAM but budget is a bit limited and I am set on 128GB of RAM

I suppose that the real question is if £350 for 128GB @ 3000Mhz is actually a half decent deal over £550 128GB @ 3200Mhz when comparing price/performance.

 

Many thanks for your input.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Get the 3000mhz, 200£ isnt worth it for 200mhz extra stock speen when you can just overclock 3000mhz to 3200mhz, you can prob do higher like 3400 or 3600 if your imc can handle it

[4PcBuilder]

If you can find a good deal on it then get 3200 or 3600 but that’s like so much extra money for 200mhz

[191x7]

Why not get 64GB of 3600 Cl14?

[Daniel81]

3 hours ago, 191x7 said:

Why not get 64GB of 3600 Cl14?

Set on 128GB as will use a RAM disk

[Daniel81]

4 hours ago, 4PcBuilder said:

If you can find a good deal on it then get 3200 or 3600 but that’s like so much extra money for 200mhz

Been looking around and best deal is £200 more, give or take a couple of quid

[YoungBlade]

You can probably overclock the memory to 3200 just fine. My RAM is DDR4-3000 and I just turned on XMP, then manually set the speed to 3200, and the kits just work. From my understanding, that sort of overclock is stable for the vast majority of kits.

[Daniel81]

On 3/18/2022 at 6:59 PM, YoungBlade said:

You can probably overclock the memory to 3200 just fine. My RAM is DDR4-3000 and I just turned on XMP, then manually set the speed to 3200, and the kits just work. From my understanding, that sort of overclock is stable for the vast majority of kits.

Just got them installed, running at 3000Mhz for now.
If they behave will try overclock to 3200Mhz and see how it goes