Hey guys quick question here that hopefully someone with real knowledge and experience can quite easily give an accurate opinion on!
Do I need faster ram!? A few years back I had heard about Battlefield being a rare game that benefits from players having faster RAM which is something I never really had heard of in other games at all until again recently. This is an article suggesting DDR benefits many games greatly from high mhz ram http://www.techspot.com/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performance/page3.html
With the BF1 trailer hype and Origin sale a couple months back I decided to get into BF4 while it was 75% off!
So targeting 145fps for 144hz required to further OC the CPU (4770k @ 1.215 vcore) from 4.2ghz to 4.4 which i now run at 4.3 to keep temps down. I was dropping to 120fps every few seconds before that and even the extra 100mhz is making the world of difference. I have had my 970 max OCd but after a while I realized it didnt help or hurt the FPS at all with the low preset with AA turned on.
Right now my Ram is 16gb Corsair 1600mhz @ 10-10-10-27 which is quite good timings and amount but the link above said at least with DDR that 3000+mhz slack timing RAM would still be a lot more effective then 2133/2400 low timing RAM.
Now this build is 2.5 years old and everything is becoming cheaper and stronger so should i buy 16gb 2400mhz Corsair Platinum Ram @ 11-13-13-31 DDR3? Would i see much of a benefit overall? It should be said that I am planning to buy one of the stronger 1080s when the stock issues are resolved and probably once the BF1 Beta is done hopefully early September.
Right now the only thing keeping me from running 4.4-4.6ghz on my CPU is temps which I will hopefully be able to fix with some better air flow in my case.
The RAM upgrade is only 100 euros which i find great since my last RAM purchase was closer to 200.
Apart from BF4 and BF1 I really only play stuff like Quake Live / CSGO / Dota2 but i play a couple of the big TrippleA single player titles per year which i really enjoy them. I also plan and hopefully will be able to play Quake Champions at 145+ fps when its released in 1-2 years, will see since DOOM ran on Ultra at 120+ FPS mostly but would play online at low.
Thanks!
Do I need faster ram!? A few years back I had heard about Battlefield being a rare game that benefits from players having faster RAM which is something I never really had heard of in other games at all until again recently. This is an article suggesting DDR benefits many games greatly from high mhz ram http://www.techspot.com/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performance/page3.html
With the BF1 trailer hype and Origin sale a couple months back I decided to get into BF4 while it was 75% off!
So targeting 145fps for 144hz required to further OC the CPU (4770k @ 1.215 vcore) from 4.2ghz to 4.4 which i now run at 4.3 to keep temps down. I was dropping to 120fps every few seconds before that and even the extra 100mhz is making the world of difference. I have had my 970 max OCd but after a while I realized it didnt help or hurt the FPS at all with the low preset with AA turned on.
Right now my Ram is 16gb Corsair 1600mhz @ 10-10-10-27 which is quite good timings and amount but the link above said at least with DDR that 3000+mhz slack timing RAM would still be a lot more effective then 2133/2400 low timing RAM.
Now this build is 2.5 years old and everything is becoming cheaper and stronger so should i buy 16gb 2400mhz Corsair Platinum Ram @ 11-13-13-31 DDR3? Would i see much of a benefit overall? It should be said that I am planning to buy one of the stronger 1080s when the stock issues are resolved and probably once the BF1 Beta is done hopefully early September.
Right now the only thing keeping me from running 4.4-4.6ghz on my CPU is temps which I will hopefully be able to fix with some better air flow in my case.
The RAM upgrade is only 100 euros which i find great since my last RAM purchase was closer to 200.
Apart from BF4 and BF1 I really only play stuff like Quake Live / CSGO / Dota2 but i play a couple of the big TrippleA single player titles per year which i really enjoy them. I also plan and hopefully will be able to play Quake Champions at 145+ fps when its released in 1-2 years, will see since DOOM ran on Ultra at 120+ FPS mostly but would play online at low.
Thanks!