Looks like a solid deal for some fast DDR4 Ram, seems like Newegg has quite a few good sales on atm (see amazing cpu deal from jasswolf here https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/416109)
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G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 3600MHz 16GB (2x 8GB Kit) $185.57 Delivered @ Newegg
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AliensStoleMyMoney on 13/11/2018 - 23:23 newegg.com (1303 clicks)
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holy shiz that's a slow ram
Remember that CAS latency is relative to clock speed. CAS 19 at 3600 mHz is equivalent to CAS 16 at 3000 MHz.
Which is also horribly slow.
This 3600C19 stuff is barely worth what they're asking, unless it tightena up easily
but its CAS 19 tho
I was going to make this comment first, but you beat me because i have this RAM :(
it's a valid reason not to buy
I read a comparison of DDR4 RAM a while ago when I was building a new machine. For most applications the advantage of higher bandwidth was negated by their lower latencies, but for large open world games (Skyrim and GTA were tested), higher bandwidth RAM resulting in 5% better frame rates than standard 2400 MHz RAM. Ordinary folk, just buy whatever RAM is cheapest. Leave the high freqency kits for the minority with $500 + graphics cards.
I am unable to find the exact article, but this one covers a lot of other popular games: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/gaming-benchmarks… Improvements are small except in Company of Heroes 2 and Project Cars.
Update: Found another systematic review. https://www.techspot.com/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performa… . In this one most complex applications (Photoshop, archive compressors) actually benefitted from higher bandwidth RAM; note that in some results lower is better. Fallout 4 on DDR 3600 was 10% better than when run on 2400 MHz RAM.
If U are running ryzen or an APu the faster ram helps a lot more compared to Intel
About to sleep so didn't check those links - did they test for timing at each speed? Keep timing the same at each speed? How'd they keep the data normalised otherwise?
DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800)
Timing 19-20-20-40
CAS Latency 19
Voltage 1.35VLooking at reviews you can get it down to
Timings at 3400:
16 17 17 17 31 48 (1.35v)
can anyone recommend some better branded RAM from MSY for an i7 ? or what specs should i get (budget < 300)
if you need 16gb gskill is a great ram brand although as said in this thread these ones are high latency take a look at these (http://www.msy.com.au/sa/holdenhill/memory/16195--gskill-rip… )
thx bud
Why does G.skill have like 3 types of ram same specs different shaped heatsinks? As does every other brand too..
If you really want to know, it's a marketing trick. First, they can push other manufacturers off the shelves by having multiple SKUs for little investment. Second, they can tweak things (like colour, reported speed) to give you the illusion of choice and potentially make you think you are getting more for paying more. In reality there are a few speed bins and the rest of it is how they describe it on the box. You are more likely to be upsold if the 'better' product is $10-$20 more, even if there's no real practical difference.
Advice required:
I currently have G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D-16GVKB 16GB Kit (8Gx2) in my current setup.
Would it be worthwhile buying this deal and pairing it with my current RAM?no always keep the same ram model for a pc. so in your case id buy another G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D-16GVKB 16GB Kit (8Gx2)
The board will adjust and use the slowest common timing of the RAM modules, but you won't notice the difference in performance outside of benchmark scores. There is a very small chance, if your board is badly designed, the mixed RAM modules will cause problem. These incompatibility problems should have been solved more than a decade ago. This might be a good read.
according to Intel the memory does not have to be the same brand, have the same latencies or even the same speed to dual channel
It is worthwhile expanding to 32GB if (1) Windows regularly starts paging memory and slows down (this has a big impact on performance), (2) your board supports quad memory channels and you want to try it (makes little difference according to benchmarks), or (3) you dislike seeing empty RAM slots.
My laptop has 16GB RAM and works without a pagefile, and it has exhausted its RAM only once when I deliberately tested it. My desktops have 32GB RAM and are also without pagefiles and I have yet to see either of them use more than 50% RAM outside of testing.
It's definitely the "(3) you dislike seeing empty RAM slots".
Thanks for the reply. I'll have a read of the link.
and a good 8dim slot mobo with 8700k would Be ? - deal ?
Apparently this is stable at 3400 at CL16 with Ryzen 2600 on B350 (Which is what i have)
only reason I bought it, seemed preferable to other sub $200 ram for my setup.
inb4 "but its CAS 19 tho"