Does Write Caching effect RAM performance?

[Ren Heika]

So I have an APU where the system RAM is shared with the CPU and GPU and I was wondering if I needed Write Caching on, my main drive is an SSD and since the RAM is shared I didn't know if this would effect performance at all.

[FuzzyLogic]

You probably shouldn't do that, as SSDs have limited write cycles. I don't think it would make that much difference in speed, as long as you have RAM with a good speed. (And enough of it)

 

[Ren Heika]

3 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

You probably shouldn't do that, as SSDs have limited write cycles. I don't think it would make that much difference in speed, as long as you have RAM with a good speed. (And enough of it)

 

Its DDR4 1866Mhz and I have 8GB, not that much for a system where graphics and and system memory is shared. Also write cache shouldn't effect write cycles. The same amount of write cycles would go to the SSD just the RAM is used as a cache if the SSD gets bogged down, which isn't much of an issue but I also have an HDD that does get bogged down and uses a good amount of RAM when write caching.