Will the faster RAM help?

[orels1]

Hi there!

 

I'm running a 4-year-old PC with an i7-2600 (non-K), on a Z68 chipset board, the graphics are provided by the MSI's gtx 780 Lightning.

And lately I felt like my games are running a bunch slower then they should. I cleared up all the useless junk, so my casual CPU consumption (when not creating stuff) is about 7-10%, so that bg process shouldn't be an issue.

 

UPD: To clarify, I'm running overclock, with average speed of 4231.1Mhz Core speed (41.0 x 103.2 MHz) (sometimes 4.35).

 

But the fact is - I have a 1333mhz memory (16gb of that), and I've read that in the most recent games, memory, actually, makes a difference (which was barely noticable before), at least that what digital foundry found out lately.

 

I've googled a bit and discovered, that my CPU can run memory up to 2000mhz+ pretty easily, even though the speeds in the spec. lists are set to 1600mhz max.

 

So, after all that, I have two questions: will I benefit from semithing like this 32gb kit: 32Gb DDR-III 2133MHz Kingston HyperX Savage (HX321C11SRK4/32) (4x8Gb KIT), in games in particular? And will I be even able to run that thing on that old of a hardware?

 

If you want to ask, why I need 32gigs of ram, the answer is simple, I work with video, like a lot, so I consume it pretty fast.

 

Attached cpu-z and dxdiag reports for the full spec-lists

 

Thanks a lot!

cpu-z.txt

DxDiag.txt

[Lotus]

A 2600k can run those speeds once overclocked, but anything over 1600 can only be reached with an overclock. For your case, it wouldn't be worth the upgrade. One possible problem you're likely running into is single-threaded performance since you don't have an overclock on that i7, and you're only running at 3.8 GHz. Most Sandy Bridge i5/i7 CPUs that are still in use are OC'd to 4.5+ GHz, which is 20% higher than you.

[orels1]

A 2600k can run those speeds once overclocked, but anything over 1600 can only be reached with an overclock. For your case, it wouldn't be worth the upgrade. One possible problem you're likely running into is single-threaded performance since you don't have an overclock on that i7, and you're only running at 3.8 GHz. Most Sandy Bridge i5/i7 CPUs that are still in use are OC'd to 4.5+ GHz, which is 20% higher than you.

 

That's why I attached CPU-Z report which clearly displays that I got 4231.1Mhz Core speed (41.0 x 103.2 MHz) and with my measurements I got 4.3 Ghz max. 4.5 wasn't really stable,

I also overclocked memory, but just a bit, it won't really go higher than 1650mhz.