Does RAM improve gaming performance? I'm wondering whether

It depends on the game. But faster RAM can help a lot.

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It most likely will not increase performance if you go from 8 to 16. More ram means you can have more data from the game be faster to access than having it on hard drive basically. (if im being partially retarded here someone plz tell me so)

>>57267118
Take your manchild gayming shit to /v/.

If you have too low RAM then the games will hang for a second every few minutes.

My only input is, if you game and that's ALL you do? You're probably fine with 8.

If you do what I do, and have another monitor with YouTube or stupid animu up while playing games, or just let shit run in the background while you game, do 16.

I ran 8 for the longest time, then bumped to 16 when my games were eating RAM and when they hung it crashed everything. With 16 I don't worry about a damn thing.

>>57267118
The real benefit is you can now game while having 12 tabs of your gay porn opened on chrome.

>>57267272 here

>>57267290
Basically this. Playing WoW with 24 tabs in FFox and YouTube running on Chrome (FULL BOTNET SLOWDOWN MODE enabled too, as I was dumb back then)

Shit feels good.

>>57267118
get 256gb ecc ram

>>57267118
Basically how much ram you have doesn't matter until you run out and ram speed hasn't mattered since DDR4 came out.

With an APU fast ram is a must, same with integrated graphics on Intel.
With anything else, ehh, 1866mhz DDR3 is good, 3000mhz+ DDR4 is good
The performance gains measured in FPS are less than a single frame gain.

>>57267118
It doesn't matter much on DDR3, doubt if it matters more on DDR4. All this clocking bullshit is just bullshit.
BUT DUAL CHANNELS

>>57267118
Yes, remember to download more RAM when playing intense games.

i want a Ramdisk with ECC ram

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>he thinks the only use for RAM is gaymes

>>57267118
There are exactly two amounts of RAM for a given application (or set of applications). Those would be "enough" and "not enough".

If you're in the "not enough" bracket, adding RAM until you exit it is a big performance boost. Once you are in the "enough" area, additional RAM does little or nothing.

>>57267118
meh, difference is noticable but not huge, so only go for the 16GB if the price difference is not too big

>>57267118
Not really. I think gta v was the only game that could have been beneficial to have 16 vs 6 that's been recently released.

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>>57267118

For some games it's a huge difference, but for most it's small.

>>57269860

you mean for ONE game, and only that one game lol.

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>>57269776
I thought the only use for ram is meat

>>57269797

Surely some programs will just take all the memory they can get though

>>57269860
fallout 4 uses the same game engine as morrowind, an unoptimised piece of shit ("creation engine is a fork of gamebyro)

>>57267118
>Because if 16gets me one more frame im in.
Do you ever use near 8GB? No? Then why would you buy 16GB? But consider this, when you tell people how much ram you have, do you want the bigger number? If you answered yes you are the average /g/tard and i prescribe 12GB to you because thats a retarded quantity.

if you create a RAMdisk and load your games from there your FPS would not improve but any stuttering or loading would disappear or be significantly quicker.

You guys still using RAM?
Fucking outdated faggots.

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>>57272472
ye wtf man, why don't you guys download it like everyone else?

>>57267118
Get Ram with the lowest CAS rating.

>>57270429
That's called a memory leak and is usually due to shit code.

>>57267118
adding more ram will have 0 benefit
ram speed is a meme especially if you're hoping for more fps
a nice low cas latency is nice to have but ultimately doesn't matter in your case


basically, 8GB of any (dual channel) ram with good ratings is enough, even on windows 10

get 16GB of ram if you intend to have 100 chrome tabs open while gaming or you're into gtx 1080 sli 4k meme gaming

DDR3 or DDR4? Don't spend too much on DDR3 since you'll most likely have to get DDR4 next upgrade cycle. If DDR4 then get as much as you can afford and never worry about it again.

>>57273152

No I mean they will allocate the max amount of memory available to them

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>>57273162

>ram speed is a meme especially if you're hoping for more fps
RAM speed does have an effect in some games.

>>57273343
that is certainly unexpected, I would only expect there to be a 1-4 fps difference not up to 18ish

if i remember correctly, some of the games they use for benchmarking get a bump of ~2-3FPS with 16gb compared to 8gb.

it's basically nothing, but if you're playing some really graphically intense stuff i would guess spending extra dosh isn't an issue anyway.

>>57273371
fps is most often limited by the speed of transfer to the GPU.

Though stronger GPUs will still manage to do more of what they're holding; use longer shaders etc.

Higher RAM speed cuts the time it takes to shift a batch of data from memory to GPU.

>>57273371
Arma 3 is a bloater, using only one core you will need all ram and speed you can get to run it.

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>>57273371

Yeah the gains can be noticeable in some games.
Or well at least as long as we're talking about jumping from near the 2000MHz range to the +3000MHz region.

>>57273343
>>57273488
source on these graphs?

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>>57273499

http://www.techspot.com/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performance/page3.html

>>57273499
reverse image search brings up techspot

>>57273514
>>57273520

Thanks, friends!

>You need at least latest highend CPU and chipset.

So unless you goes full ham on other spec, people shouldn't really bother with gaming RAM, right?

Not even i5 can run DDR4 3000 memory.

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>>57268423
>BUT DUAL CHANNELS
lol

>>57273631
it can when you clock it up.
RAM doesn't clock as well as CPUs

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>>57267118
>>57269860
>>57273343
>>57273488
>>57273514