Question about RAM

#1 Edited by MethodMan008 (701 posts) - 5 months, 11 days ago

Yo dudes.

So I was messing around in my BIOS settings after a dude at work was telling me about clocking up RAM... I see mine was set at 13xx, so I clocked it up 16xx and my PC crashed twice playing FarCry3 after that.. After the two crashes I went back and switched the speed to Auto, and FarCry hasn't crashed since then.. The conclusion (guess) I came to is that I have slow RAM?

I do have 12gbs, but I always hear RAM is so cheap, would I see any noticeable performance boosts getting better RAM than what I currently have?

Thanks as always.

#2 Edited by Snail (7850 posts) - 5 months, 11 days ago

If you have 12GBs of DDR3 RAM right now you have no need to upgrade. I don't know how much difference you'd actually notice if you got faster RAM, but I'm under the impression that it doesn't matter that much, and I don't think it's very reasonable to just throw away 12GB of perfectly working DDR3 RAM.

#3 Posted by bill (88 posts) - 5 months, 11 days ago

@Snail said:

If you have 12GBs of DDR3 RAM right now you have no need to upgrade. I don't know how much difference you'd actually notice if you got faster RAM, but I'm under the impression that it doesn't matter that much, and I don't think it's very reasonable to just throw away 12GB of perfectly working DDR3 RAM.

#4 Posted by envane (1079 posts) - 5 months, 11 days ago

@MethodMan008: not much at all if you dont combine it with processor overclocking , thats what its mainly done for anyway.

and the adjustment you made wouldnt have improved much if anything for farcry

#5 Posted by jking47 (1041 posts) - 5 months, 11 days ago

Yeah, 12gb is more than enough. If you want to overclock things to help game performance, you want to look at your GPU and CPU. HOWEVER be very careful overclocking stuff unless you know what you are doing, you can shorten the lifespan or even burn out your parts if you are not careful.

#6 Posted by MAGZine (350 posts) - 5 months, 11 days ago

RAM voltage may need to be increased if you're getting instability.

#7 Posted by Subjugation (4333 posts) - 5 months, 11 days ago

The gains you get from altering RAM timings is so minimal that it really isn't worth it. Same with the speed. Honestly, with a few minutes on Google I'm sure you'll run into the same articles that ran benchmarks on the performance gain (or lack thereof) that really pushing RAM did for gaming. I can promise you that your memory isn't something that is holding you back.

#8 Posted by Bourbon_Warrior (4525 posts) - 5 months, 11 days ago

@jking47 said:

Yeah, 12gb is more than enough. If you want to overclock things to help game performance, you want to look at your GPU and CPU. HOWEVER be very careful overclocking stuff unless you know what you are doing, you can shorten the lifespan or even burn out your parts if you are not careful.

I just use the auto-tune features in CCC, turned my 3.4ghz quad core into 4.2ghz, which was easy.

#9 Posted by MordeaniisChaos (5731 posts) - 5 months, 11 days ago

Playing with that stuff is more useful for stability than for performance.

#10 Posted by Devildoll (625 posts) - 5 months, 8 days ago

just like overclocking a cpu, you cant just crank the frequency up and expect it to run.

you've got to tamper with the voltages if you are hitting the edge.

but yeeh, you wont notice any performance increases, only in benchmarks.

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