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General Category => General CG Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: hurrycat on 2021-11-24, 12:38:54

Title: 3970x RAM Upgrade - 3200 or 3600mhz
Post by: hurrycat on 2021-11-24, 12:38:54

Hi guys,

First of all sorry if there are similar topics to this one already discussed, feel free to merge them if if you like.

Somehow I have managed so long using 64gb of RAM (full ram popup is a docked window at this point) but it is time to upgrade!
I am using a 3970x on an Asus Prime TRX40 Pro and want to go for 128gb (4sticks of 32gb). I  would like to know if the difference between 3200 and 3600 frequency or CAS Latency would be something noticeable, in Render times or overall system stability, or if I would rather go for a budget option.

For example, the following kit from Gskill seems like a nice pair of 32gb sticks, 3200mhz with CL16-18-18-38, currently going for around 300€ (so 2 of those).

https://www.gskill.com/product/165/184/1571733948/F4-3200C16D-64GVK

Thank you and have a nice day!

Harry

Title: Re: 3970x RAM Upgrade - 3200 or 3600mhz
Post by: hurrycat on 2021-11-30, 22:27:47

...anyone?? :)

Title: Re: 3970x RAM Upgrade - 3200 or 3600mhz
Post by: Nejc Kilar on 2021-12-01, 09:20:47

Take this with a grain of salt a bit but on my 3970x system changing the RAM speed from 3600mhz to 3200mhz doesn't seem to affect the speed in most tasks I do (modeling, rendering etc.). At the very least, the benchmarks don't show it.

I'm using the same latency too and I get scores equal to other 3970x builds.

Hopefully thats of any help, maybe someone else will chime in and prove us all wrong :)

Title: Re: 3970x RAM Upgrade - 3200 or 3600mhz
Post by: hurrycat on 2021-12-01, 21:45:16

Thank you, I too believe the real world performance difference will be minor..