Memory Spees

[paultutuianu]

I have got an i7 12700F and I decided to go 32Gb of 3200Mhz DDR5 was out of reach for my budget. Should have I gone 16Gb 3600Mhz

[filpo]

3 minutes ago, paultutuianu said:

I have got an i7 12700F and I decided to go 32Gb of 3200Mhz DDR5 was out of reach for my budget. Should have I gone 16Gb 3600Mhz

16 gigs isn't really needed for games now but if you've already bought it and can't refund it then its good futureproofing

[kitnoman]

Yes and no. Since you have 12700f and probably have a higher end gpu as well. I'm going to guess that there's a high chance that you have 1440p or 4k monitor. If you are anything close like me, that leaves my browser open when gaming, and with the new games that is started to come in and actually uses a lot of ram/vram on higher resolutions, 32gb is actually the new standard.

[paultutuianu]

29 minutes ago, kitnoman said:

Yes and no. Since you have 12700f and probably have a higher end gpu as well. I'm going to guess that there's a high chance that you have 1440p or 4k monitor. If you are anything close like me, that leaves my browser open when gaming, and with the new games that is started to come in and actually uses a lot of ram/vram on higher resolutions, 32gb is actually the new standard.

I've got an 165 Hz Msi G27C6 1080p monitor and GTX1660Ti, even though I want to chage it for an RX 6800 or 6800 XT

[kitnoman]

9 minutes ago, paultutuianu said:

I've got an 165 Hz Msi G27C6 1080p monitor and GTX1660Ti, even though I want to chage it for an RX 6800 or 6800 XT

If that's the case, if it were me, I would just get the 32gb too. but I do hope you didn't get it at $150-250 as there are 32gb ddr5 at $100-130 currently. I'd say 16gb is more than enough with your current hardware. However, once you upgrade your gpu and monitor, the ram might be the bottleneck. Specially if you like playing AAA games. There are now a lot of games that uses more then 16gb of ram at 1440p, when using high graphic settings and up. So with your 1080p and 1660ti, it won't affect you yet. But once you get the 6800xt, it might. Like in cyberpunk, hogwarts,RE4 etc, basically in 1440p, if it needs more than 16gb of ram, while you can still get good average fps, you get a lot of frame drops and the 1% and .01% lows suffers a lot.

[paultutuianu]

39 minutes ago, kitnoman said:

If that's the case, if it were me, I would just get the 32gb too. but I do hope you didn't get it at $150-250 as there are 32gb ddr5 at $100-130 currently. I'd say 16gb is more than enough with your current hardware. However, once you upgrade your gpu and monitor, the ram might be the bottleneck. Specially if you like playing AAA games. There are now a lot of games that uses more then 16gb of ram at 1440p, when using high graphic settings and up. So with your 1080p and 1660ti, it won't affect you yet. But once you get the 6800xt, it might. Like in cyberpunk, hogwarts,RE4 etc, basically in 1440p, if it needs more than 16gb of ram, while you can still get good average fps, you get a lot of frame drops and the 1% and .01% lows suffers a lot.

the newest triple A title I played was The Last of Us. I played Half life one and enjoyed it more and I do not want to change my monitor rn, it has only 2 years and very good for now for me. For 4k I have my xbox to play on my TV