Ram Disks

[Sergio Urtiz]

I was planning to get 16gb of ram but I remembered about Ram Disks so im thinking of getting a 32gb set, but i want to know if its worth the extra 100$? (keep in mind i only game)

[Paradine Sage]

No.

 

There are plenty of reasons to get more RAM but to make use of a RAM disk for a game really isn't one of them. Now if you already have the RAM then using a RAM Disk for whatever can make sense but just for gaming is not a reason to invest in more RAM for a RAM disk.

[joshfrog]

i dont think it would most games are bigger then 16gb if its a AAA title and the amount of speed that it would add to games wouldnt be worth it you would do better buying an ssd 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Sergio Urtiz said:

I was planning to get 16gb of ram but I remembered about Ram Disks so im thinking of getting a 32gb set, but i want to know if its worth the extra 100$? (keep in mind i only game)

What are you doing with them? Have you watched Linus video? He said clearly all the files in there will be gone when you shut it off. No point of getting more RAM at all. 

[Sergio Urtiz]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

What are you doing with them? Have you watched Linus video? He said clearly all the files in there will be gone when you shut it off. No point of getting more RAM at all. 

i havent watched it yet im going to watch it right now.

[Dark]

RAM disk is rather pointless for most games.

 

The difficult part is configuring the system to move the game to the RAM disk each time you want to play it...which is a waste once it works properly. 

 

Benefits of RAM disk (besides using it it try and saturate a network or storage pipe) is for booting an OS off small flash media (SD/USB), where the primary OS files are permanently stored on the other media and loaded to ram during boot. 

[maremp]

Linus made a video about this, it's not worth it. It's better to just get a decent ssd. 

[ARikozuM]

21 minutes ago, Sergio Urtiz said:

I was planning to get 16gb of ram but I remembered about Ram Disks so im thinking of getting a 32gb set, but i want to know if its worth the extra 100$? (keep in mind i only game)

Get faster RAM instead of more RAM. There is very little need in a RAM disk when your CPU will work better with the higher bandwidth.

[Dark]

6 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Get faster RAM instead of more RAM. There is very little need in a RAM disk when your CPU will work better with the higher bandwidth.

It has already been shown that faster memory provides little to not benefit unless the system utilizes an APU/integrated gpu that relies on the system memory for processing. 

If anything you you want less latent ram. 

 

 

 

[ARikozuM]

4 minutes ago, Dark said:

It has already been shown that faster memory provides little to not benefit unless the system utilizes an APU/integrated gpu that relies on the system memory for processing. 

If anything you you want less latent ram. 

Go check Digital Foundry and Gamers Nexus for some of the RAM benchmarks in gaming and not synthetics.

 

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2677-bf1-ram-benchmark-frequency-8gb-enough/page-2

[Dark]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Go check Digital Foundry and Gamers Nexus for some of the RAM benchmarks in gaming and not synthetics.

Link them on this thread for everyone to see. 

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Dark said:

Link them on this thread for everyone to see. 

Already did.

[Dark]

11 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Already did.

So as I said, still little to no difference unless you're running a low end chip or low resolution.  Even then, the higher cost of faster memory would be better spent towards a better CPU or GPU.

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Dark said:

So as I said, still little to no difference unless you're running a low end chip or low resolution.  Even then, the higher cost of faster memory would be better spent towards a better CPU or GPU.

You're not looking at the frame-times and dips. The higher speed RAM makes quite a difference in CPU-bound scenarios. You can look at BF4 and 2133 vs 2666. A whole 10Hz for current and average frame-time stays steady while the 2133 dips down quite a bit as shown in the right-side graph. 

 

Nearly all of the games showed good frame-times with the 2666 and higher RAM speeds if the CPU was doing more work.