I saw a similar price on corsair ddr3 ram last week and was tempted to upgrade, looked again and saw this was available, good price if you use ddr4. Try your luck.
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beard7
19 Feb 179#3
BT so they will probably cancel the orders.
yogSH
19 Feb 179#9
This is the same deal that got cancelled last month by BT.
pal604
19 Feb 174#11
Yep, my order was cancelled three weeks ago, same again I expect.
heingericke
19 Feb 174#8
I ordered these 3 weeks ago and they cancelled my order.
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BetaRomeo
19 Feb 173#1
Extremely hot price, especially at 14-16-16-31.
Note that memory speed has started to noticeably impact games from the last couple of years, so if you're looking to put together a good gaming PC you may benefit from faster RAM, but for a cheapy gaming PC or an HTPC/encoder etc this is an absolutely fantastic deal.
sdziubek1
19 Feb 17#2
Great price have some heat :smile: Although, still don't understand BT "order upon request" status anyone had any troubles ?
Oh my goodness /o\ that one where "DoctorDeals" didn't read the article about memory speed tests at all (or possibly somehow missed a dozen benchmarks and a couple of paragraphs of details), posted a completely wrong summary... and then everyone assumed DoctorDeals knew how to read and had summarised it accurately!
That one brought the feeling of pain to my head. :confused:
Edit: just looking through, I'd forgotten it turned out they had bought DDR4-2133 - clearly they were just denying the existence of all those benchmarks that showed significantly worse results with their memory speed. I did have the chance to mess with a friend's DDR4 clocks a couple of days later, though, and the difference between memory set at 2133 and 3200 is absolutely noticeable in several games (but not The Division!) - we even blind-tested another friend to check it wasn't just confirmation bias. The articles are correct - yes, there's a boost to average FPS which looks good on paper, but the real benefit is the big boost to minimum FPS which is appreciable in practice.
Gowlande
19 Feb 17#5
With regards to the request order, it was the same with the ddr3 I mentioned, know someone who did order and managed to get them.
gr8h8me
19 Feb 17#7
Great Price. Shame its not 3200 I would buy it
heingericke
19 Feb 174#8
I ordered these 3 weeks ago and they cancelled my order.
yogSH
19 Feb 179#9
This is the same deal that got cancelled last month by BT.
nazmanchester
19 Feb 174#10
this will get cancelled
pal604
19 Feb 174#11
Yep, my order was cancelled three weeks ago, same again I expect.
fishmaster
19 Feb 172#12
No way you'll get it for this price. The real prices you'll find on Amazon UK and other sites.
hashemcom007
19 Feb 17#13
Is this for laptop or desktop.
I hav the yoga 510 i3 with 4gb.
simon_deville to hashemcom007
19 Feb 171#14
This is for a desktop, laptop ram is normally half the size
lugsy3
19 Feb 17#15
Heat added, if it was 3000mhz, I would be buying this to upgrade to 32gb
pankomputerek
19 Feb 17#16
Hot! Ordered, let's hope they send it out. Need ti for upcoming Ryzen build!
TheGuyWhoNeverGetsSamples to pankomputerek
19 Feb 17#17
Well you dont Need it, you want it
Uncommon.Sense
19 Feb 172#18
I'm pretty sure his Ryzen build would be useless with out RAM, so he needs it.
TheGuyWhoNeverGetsSamples
19 Feb 17#19
DDR3 is better, its true
zHamzz
19 Feb 17#20
Ordered thanks ! Got 32gb ddr3 that needs to be flogged soon...
komi
19 Feb 17#21
Thanks ordered, wanted to upgrade to 32gb from 16gb, noticed playing the rise of the tomb raider on max settings peaking at 15gb of ram!!
running 2x 980ti's @ 1.49ghz and 5820k @ 4.6ghz
The_Hoff to komi
19 Feb 173#23
Go and read about memory allocation vs memory usage. They're very different. The same is true of VRAM.
rapidracer10 to komi
19 Feb 171#24
Unused ram is wasted ram :smirk:
rev6 to komi
19 Feb 17#32
Check your committed memory. Commit charge will likely be higher.
mia_lae
19 Feb 17#22
Bad deal...If you're getting DDR4 why would you get one that has a similar speed to ddr3? At least get 3200mhz+
Chromium
19 Feb 17#25
Nice find! Managed to get this deal a couple of months ago from Eclipse Computers. They didn't cancel either and I paid half-price, although a few minutes after I ordered, the price went back up to £105.
jadamso
19 Feb 17#26
Thanks for this. Ordered some though not hopeful. I hope FatTony saw this!
P.S. Check your account regularly to see if the order has been cancelled.
MadonnaProject
19 Feb 17#27
Nice.
MadonnaProject
19 Feb 17#28
Nice.
inspireme
19 Feb 171#29
Ordered this last time and a few days later, they cancelled... good luck, hope those that orderd get their memory sticks. I was fortunate enough to get Corsair Vegence LED's 16gb 3200mhz's for £88 on eBay... so turned out alright for me :laughing:
babswatkins to inspireme
19 Feb 172#31
So you're the one that outbid me lol
vardx
19 Feb 17#30
Great deal. I just bought it. Then I realized it's even cheaper on the bt Ireland site. Bought it for 52.85 eur including delivery! What's that, like a little over 40 quid?
For some reason I was charged even less than the listed price. Something probably bugged... Praying it gets delivered.
MadonnaProject to vardx
19 Feb 17#34
Link please.
Buckyball to vardx
19 Feb 17#38
Can only find the business shop where the are 55.xx + vat
MadeInBeats
19 Feb 17#33
When DDR4 is cheaper than DDR3 :disappointed:
capriboycraig to MadeInBeats
19 Feb 171#39
As DDR3 production winds down prices will rise, happened when we switched from 2 - 3, DDR - 2.
bradmca
19 Feb 17#35
Any good deals for 1 x 8gb stick of ddr3 1333mhz?
n0chex
19 Feb 17#36
Standard Due date unavailable
inspireme
19 Feb 17#37
Hahaha :smile:
stefw82
19 Feb 17#40
bite the bullet, going to build a new pc and was going for 3000mhz but at this price you cant argue. hopefully they deliver.
MadeInBeats
19 Feb 17#41
You'd think the eBay market would be flooded with the stuff, bringing used prices down... but they are still insanely high as well.
Settee
19 Feb 172#42
Member when you could get 16gb ddr3 for £50? I member
izakamakazi
19 Feb 17#43
Only if you were a member?
rev6
19 Feb 171#44
Settee
19 Feb 17#45
It would probably be a decent investment to buy all this stock and then sell it when ddr5 comes out.
rev6
19 Feb 171#46
Hmmmmmm probably not.
n0chex
19 Feb 171#47
I bought 32GB 4x8Gb DDR4 HyperX 2133 MHz from EBay brand new £80 including delivery and he has 24 strips left.
goodsum
19 Feb 17#48
Faster than 2400mhz DDR4 RAM? That's pretty decent for any setup
It's weird though, I'm looking in my account and it says I was charged 78 euro for my order, but in the order confirmation it said differently. Plus, it looked like it subtracted the delivery charge or vat rather than simply leaving it out.
Here's a screen
Don't yet know what my card has been charged with. I'll confirm when it goes through. To be honest, I'm happy with either! Ram prices are crazy these days.
Edit. Screen shows I should have been charged this. Let's wait and see.
vardx
19 Feb 17#50
See my post above. When added to cart final charge Inc delivery appears as that.
Site probably just ****.
Buckyball
19 Feb 17#51
Thanks,
Unfortunately, don't have an Irish address available right now. Gave it a shot in the UK store, total for 2 kits £113.59 incl. delivery. Great price if they ship.
vardx
19 Feb 17#52
Yeah, thinking the same thing here. I bought from the UK store also, delivering to a family member in London. If one of my orders ships I'll be happy!
dfunked
19 Feb 17#53
Sod it, worth a punt. I'm leaning towards a Ryzen build to replace my trusty 2600k one, but was considering keeping that around for VM use (32GB DDR3)
Might as well make a fresh start and flog the old stuff.
Nellster
19 Feb 171#54
That's a cracking deal. You would never know the difference between 2133 and 3000+ on DDR4 anyway, from all the testing I have done.
vardx
19 Feb 17#55
Who where what when, link please!
The_Hoff
19 Feb 17#56
Strange, I just checked the listings including sold items and see nothing close to that price.
Item number if you'd be so kind? I call BS
vardx
19 Feb 17#57
Best I found was an auction. I've bid on it. Winning at 102 pounds at the moment. I'm half hoping I lose though, I've bought like 128gb of ram in the past day just because I'm scared it will go up in price :neutral_face:
n0chex
19 Feb 172#58
I do not BS why would I do that!! I have edited the sellers name and item number as I am seriously thinking in buying his other 24 sticks ( If he still has them )
Cantona007
19 Feb 17#59
Dammit! Wish my board supported this. I need another 8b of 2133 and Hyper fury x which I have one of is dam expensive!
dfunked
19 Feb 171#60
I don't BS, so here's a heavily edited image to prove that...
Maybe you did buy it at that price, but that was a couple of weeks ago now and anything else on eBay now is in the region of twice what you paid.
vardx
19 Feb 17#61
As far as I'm aware you can buy it, as long as your board is DDR4, it will just run at a reduced speed.
Cantona007
19 Feb 17#62
But mismatch could cause issues from what I've heard.
HangTime
19 Feb 17#63
Because they might have a motherboard that only supports DDR4 and do not consider the faster speeds to be worth the premium.
How much does 16GB of 3200mhz+ memory currently cost?
PS: I don't BS :smiley: and if you are still doubting me I can Pm you my Paypal Invoice .
vardx
19 Feb 17#65
I've heard similar, but as far as I'm aware it can be done. Best to ask on TomsHardware to be sure in my opinion.
edanfalls
19 Feb 17#66
Nice find, you got lucky there!
If you look at his sold items, the 2 auctions that they sold the RAM in were badly labelled. Titles were just "32GB Ram" and "Kingston Hyper x ram". In the item specifics, on one item they included the capacity ("32GB") and type ("DDR4"). On the other item they didn't even do that.
The result: Most people wouldn't have found these items. Anyone selecting RAM by speed or searching for "DDR 2400" or selecting 32GB in the filters would have missed them.
Often you get the best finds on eBay by browsing through hundreds of items instead of searching, to find items not well marked up.
dfunked
19 Feb 171#67
I'm confused... That's a link to 64GB (unsold), whereas you say you got 32GB.
Fair enough though, as the poster above says, people missel stuff on eBay all the time. I remember using a website years ago that searched for common misspellings of whatever you wanted to search for and you could get some absolute bargains that never showed up in the normal search.
PhoenixS
19 Feb 17#68
I hate how companies have a right to cancel on a whim. If you go into a shop they have to honor the price on the label unless it's been switched, it shouldn't be different online. I ordered 1 set of this could do with a lot more but didn't want to be greedy. Probably will get cancelled anyways.
yogSH
19 Feb 17#69
BT often cancels their orders. Though I have ordered, I don't expect it would be any different this time around.
robodan918
19 Feb 17#70
It's because as you increase voltage and clock speed you also increase latency
Overclocking ram is a game of diminishing returns
If the chips ran faster and at least as stable (in real world use) with those overclocked settings, chances are the engineers who designed it and marketing people who sell it would have made that the stock setting.
Think about it - if they didn't do that they'd be leaving money on the table
I overclock, but just barely, and I do it mostly for fun/hobby. I know that the most I'll get is 2-3fps better. If I want bigger improvements, I upgrade my hardware.
tempt
19 Feb 17#71
Ordered a few to sell on at a margin. Hope it goes through.
The_Hoff
19 Feb 17#72
Exactly, 8x8 not 8x4 as was mentioned and unsold as you said.
n0chex
19 Feb 17#73
Not sure what you are trying to achieve here but as you are so doubtful in my replies and links just send the seller a pm asking did he sell 4x8 YES 4x8 to me Andrew for £80 posted on the date stated. Then you can come back here and apologise for doubting me.
The_Hoff
20 Feb 171#74
Ok mate, so he sold you something completely incorrectly listed, I get it.
You'll forgive the scepticism on grounds your posted some shopped image and the auction is completely as odds with what you're claiming I'm sure.
You got a good deal, irrelevant to this deal mind you.
ganon
20 Feb 17#75
Bought a g4560 from them 2 weeks back or so £52 but why is there delivery charge for the ram?
BetaRomeo
20 Feb 17#76
Oh, what testing have you done?
Last week someone here was doubting all of the articles that claim faster memory produces better in-game results (they didn't have a counter-argument or source showing the opposite, they were just making contrary statements based on nothing... other than the fact that they'd bought 2133 :wink:). Despite their incredibly poor argument for memory speed not making a difference, it did make me wonder if the results were a) reproducible and b) even noticeable.
A friend of mine has an i5-6600K with a 6GB 1060 and 16GB of DDR4-3200, and so we tried some of the games that seemed to benefit from faster memory. Testing was easy - just change the game settings to be high enough to average above 60, with some dips below 60 during playtime. On Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider and The Witcher 3, the difference between 2133 and 3200 is absolutely unmissable, whether you're watching or playing. The hitches are frequent and noticeable at 2133 in many areas (although some places, like that radioactive desert place in Fallout 4, didn't drop below 60 on either). We also tried The Division, to see if we could reproduce others' claims that there's no difference, and sure enough, we couldn't tell any.
Finally, as another friend was joining us, we set up Fallout 4 again (starting from Diamond City), but lied to our friend about which setting he was trying each time, so he was using the memory at 2133 when he thought it was 3200. He claimed the "2133" was much better, and suggested that the system must be automatically lowering the latency to give the "improved" performance (we set up everything manually, by the way - timings were consistent) - so that seemed to show conclusively that there's a noticeable improvement.
We wanted to test Ryse due to its claimed sometimes-hilarious performance on 2133, but none of us owned it a week ago - and now we all own it from that Humble Bundle that came out a couple of days later! I'm not sure if we'll get back to testing it.
So, what games did you test? And what memory speeds?
The_Hoff
20 Feb 171#77
Sounds like you guys know how to have a good time!
Memory speed will benefit any CPU bound games (FO4, 1-2 others) but we're talking apparently 1%-3% in terms of FPS, so 2FPS average gain @ 60FPS, but in GPU based games that won't be as evident if at all.
In terms of % cost increase from 2400 to 3200, you need to decide is that's worth while.
thekanester
20 Feb 17#78
Wait until you're a company and one of your employees makes a mistake on entering a price potentially costing you £30k. See how sympathetic you are then.
biddilybah
20 Feb 171#79
This isn't true and is one of the biggest myths going. Shops can refuse to sell an item to you that is a misprice. Contracts are only formed once cash is handed over. It's the same online and offline.
VeronicaCli
20 Feb 17#80
If i ordered now, will they cancel it then?
derms
20 Feb 171#81
Discontinued now - hope those that ordered get it
yogSH
20 Feb 17#82
Lol as expected... Order cancelled. BT is so good at this :stuck_out_tongue:
dfunked
20 Feb 17#83
Ah well... I guess I'll have to keep an eye on eBay for some mythical £80 bargains instead.
Oh, I do apologise. Please excuse us for taking an hour and a half to pursue our interests (and for me to personally check whether or not it's worth spending extra money on faster RAM for a new build next month). No doubt when you've finished coolly writing your comments about memory speed on a UK deals website, you immediately take a limo across to your private jet, fly to Italy and spend the rest of the day playing electric guitar in the Colosseum. :man:
But I am interested in a source for your numbers - only three games will see a max of a 3% improvement? That doesn't match either my personal experience, or the articles available on the subject - and, as you've fallen into the trap of thinking the average frames per second is the important figure in this case, I think that exposes just what an expert you are on the subject. :wink: As mentioned repeatedly by everyone with any experience or technical knowledge, it's the minimum frame rates where you see/feel the benefit, and it's a lot more than 3% in most 2015-onwards AAA games. Let me guess: you're another DDR4-2133 owner? I'm sorry if that's the case, but please don't be that horrible kind of person that wants everyone else to make the same mistake you've made.
The_Hoff to BetaRomeo
20 Feb 171#87
Seriously, I'd love to go for a beer with you. Life and soul of the party!
Fortunately I rely on other [more informed] journalists and tech review sites to source my information, but getting my mates over to my bedroom for a day blindfolding each other sounds like a great day too.
For reference, I still use DDR3 1800 on my 1050 rig because just like DDR4, RAM isn't the bottleneck of my system and it likely isn't in yours either. When I upgrade to Ryzen, I'll use 2400 because frequency makes zero difference for 99% of tasks. I'll use the extra money I save to buy you a pint of shandy.
There's a ton of information on this, Toms Hardware, Ars, Techspot and they all agree. Spend money on your GPU is you're a gamer, and your CPU if you run computation tasks like rendering.
Most of the games you mentioned (to illustrate the fact your day was wasted, and better spent getting fresh air):
8GB vs 16GB:
BetaRomeo
20 Feb 17#88
Oh, I'm sorry. I think my use of English confused you. When I said that I was seeing if the results in published articles were reproducible and noticeable on our home systems, what I meant was... hmmm, how to dumb it down further? We were taking a tiny bit of time to see if the articles were lying. Spoiler alert: they weren't.
I'm also sorry to hear that you have some terrible wasting disease that means that 90 minutes is a full day for you. I'm healthy, so I get 16-17 hours of waking time each day. 90 minutes of playing games and drinking whisky with friends [real friends who I can meet in real life, if you're unfamiliar with the concept] before going out for the evening doesn't exactly destroy a day for us. I'm not sure where the blindfolding comes from, though..? We usually don't do that until after we get back in. :man:
Thank you for referencing Ars, TomsHardware and Techspot before then going on to produce benchmarks from... TechBuyersGuru. :smile: It's good to see you do have a sense of humour after all. (And, unless I'm much mistaken, weren't those taken from a quad-channel X99 system? :smile: Hardly representative for gamers in general, let alone the HUKD crowd!) You'll obviously see more benefit on a dual-channel system - and either you're technically-inept, and you didn't know the difference; or you did know, and purposely chose to use unrepresentative benchmarks to win Internet points at the risk of giving bad purchasing advice to everyone else reading. Again, don't be that horrible kind of person, please. Our comments here are supposed to help people with purchases.
It's nice to hear you talk about theoretical performance bottlenecks without referencing the effects in practice - that at least proves that you're not an experienced technical user. If you're interested in reading up on actual performance differences (of which I've checked just a couple for myself to confirm, and shared my experience with the people here - thank you for telling me I can't have experienced what I did experience and what all the other articles claim to have experienced, though), there's a nice collation of multiple articles and summarised results here. If you have any questions, I'm happy to help. :smiley:
(Your "8GB vs 16GB" graph seems to be on a completely different topic..? Still, it agrees with another link I shared a few hours ago - no apparent difference in game performance between 8GB and 16GB of RAM.)
beard7 to BetaRomeo
20 Feb 17#95
so, like everyone else, I didn't get the memory but I did get a load of marketing bumf from BT trying to sell me a £1000 laptop. hmmm.
BetaRomeo to BetaRomeo
21 Feb 17#96
Oh my goodness, next time you're back 'up' (sorry, the meaning of "go down outside" is lost on me), at least go back and edit your misleading comment to add the fact that you've shared pictures quad-channel benchmarks which are relevant to approximately 0% of the HUKD crowd.
I don't care that you don't know about BIOS profiles, don't understand the difference between memory frequencies and memory timings, don't know how to test PC performance yourself, and don't understand the difference between dual-channel and quad-channel setups. I do care that other people might see those quad-channel benchmarks and think that they somehow apply to DDR4 memory frequencies on typical motherboards, e.g. Z170 boards, when they... don't.
It seems you're one of those horrible people after all, happier to mislead people than accept that things change. :disappointed: Still, maybe you'll win the Internet! Hooray for you!
yogSH to BetaRomeo
21 Feb 17#97
Don't fight! Buy whichever ram you want to. Not everyone can afford to spend £120 for a 3000Mhz ram. I would anytime go for 2400 one if it costs me anywhere around 70 for that gives a better value cost wise.
bnwubnfguisr
20 Feb 17#89
got cancellation email :disappointed:
stefw82
20 Feb 17#90
Yep got canccelled
Belloq
20 Feb 17#91
Yes, mine was cancelled too.
pankomputerek
20 Feb 17#92
Cancelled mine too.
The_Hoff
20 Feb 17#93
I stopped reading after a paragraph. Had to go down outside.
Like I said, you were wrong, there's no difference kiddo.
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Note that memory speed has started to noticeably impact games from the last couple of years, so if you're looking to put together a good gaming PC you may benefit from faster RAM, but for a cheapy gaming PC or an HTPC/encoder etc this is an absolutely fantastic deal.
That one brought the feeling of pain to my head. :confused:
Edit: just looking through, I'd forgotten it turned out they had bought DDR4-2133 - clearly they were just denying the existence of all those benchmarks that showed significantly worse results with their memory speed. I did have the chance to mess with a friend's DDR4 clocks a couple of days later, though, and the difference between memory set at 2133 and 3200 is absolutely noticeable in several games (but not The Division!) - we even blind-tested another friend to check it wasn't just confirmation bias. The articles are correct - yes, there's a boost to average FPS which looks good on paper, but the real benefit is the big boost to minimum FPS which is appreciable in practice.
I hav the yoga 510 i3 with 4gb.
running 2x 980ti's @ 1.49ghz and 5820k @ 4.6ghz
P.S. Check your account regularly to see if the order has been cancelled.
For some reason I was charged even less than the listed price. Something probably bugged... Praying it gets delivered.
It's weird though, I'm looking in my account and it says I was charged 78 euro for my order, but in the order confirmation it said differently. Plus, it looked like it subtracted the delivery charge or vat rather than simply leaving it out.
Here's a screen
Don't yet know what my card has been charged with. I'll confirm when it goes through. To be honest, I'm happy with either! Ram prices are crazy these days.
Edit. Screen shows I should have been charged this. Let's wait and see.
Site probably just ****.
Unfortunately, don't have an Irish address available right now. Gave it a shot in the UK store, total for 2 kits £113.59 incl. delivery. Great price if they ship.
Might as well make a fresh start and flog the old stuff.
Item number if you'd be so kind? I call BS
Maybe you did buy it at that price, but that was a couple of weeks ago now and anything else on eBay now is in the region of twice what you paid.
How much does 16GB of 3200mhz+ memory currently cost?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kingston-HyperX-Fury-Black-DDR4-64GB-Kit-8x8GB-2133mhz-/122332504358?hash=item1c7b95e126%3Ag%3AXE0AAOSwImRYGit-&nma=true&si=I29LITwoZhLUQX3o4LIkVpnUWIw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
PS: I don't BS :smiley: and if you are still doubting me I can Pm you my Paypal Invoice .
If you look at his sold items, the 2 auctions that they sold the RAM in were badly labelled. Titles were just "32GB Ram" and "Kingston Hyper x ram". In the item specifics, on one item they included the capacity ("32GB") and type ("DDR4"). On the other item they didn't even do that.
The result: Most people wouldn't have found these items. Anyone selecting RAM by speed or searching for "DDR 2400" or selecting 32GB in the filters would have missed them.
Often you get the best finds on eBay by browsing through hundreds of items instead of searching, to find items not well marked up.
Fair enough though, as the poster above says, people missel stuff on eBay all the time. I remember using a website years ago that searched for common misspellings of whatever you wanted to search for and you could get some absolute bargains that never showed up in the normal search.
Overclocking ram is a game of diminishing returns
If the chips ran faster and at least as stable (in real world use) with those overclocked settings, chances are the engineers who designed it and marketing people who sell it would have made that the stock setting.
Think about it - if they didn't do that they'd be leaving money on the table
I overclock, but just barely, and I do it mostly for fun/hobby. I know that the most I'll get is 2-3fps better. If I want bigger improvements, I upgrade my hardware.
You'll forgive the scepticism on grounds your posted some shopped image and the auction is completely as odds with what you're claiming I'm sure.
You got a good deal, irrelevant to this deal mind you.
Last week someone here was doubting all of the articles that claim faster memory produces better in-game results (they didn't have a counter-argument or source showing the opposite, they were just making contrary statements based on nothing... other than the fact that they'd bought 2133 :wink:). Despite their incredibly poor argument for memory speed not making a difference, it did make me wonder if the results were a) reproducible and b) even noticeable.
A friend of mine has an i5-6600K with a 6GB 1060 and 16GB of DDR4-3200, and so we tried some of the games that seemed to benefit from faster memory. Testing was easy - just change the game settings to be high enough to average above 60, with some dips below 60 during playtime. On Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider and The Witcher 3, the difference between 2133 and 3200 is absolutely unmissable, whether you're watching or playing. The hitches are frequent and noticeable at 2133 in many areas (although some places, like that radioactive desert place in Fallout 4, didn't drop below 60 on either). We also tried The Division, to see if we could reproduce others' claims that there's no difference, and sure enough, we couldn't tell any.
Finally, as another friend was joining us, we set up Fallout 4 again (starting from Diamond City), but lied to our friend about which setting he was trying each time, so he was using the memory at 2133 when he thought it was 3200. He claimed the "2133" was much better, and suggested that the system must be automatically lowering the latency to give the "improved" performance (we set up everything manually, by the way - timings were consistent) - so that seemed to show conclusively that there's a noticeable improvement.
We wanted to test Ryse due to its claimed sometimes-hilarious performance on 2133, but none of us owned it a week ago - and now we all own it from that Humble Bundle that came out a couple of days later! I'm not sure if we'll get back to testing it.
So, what games did you test? And what memory speeds?
Memory speed will benefit any CPU bound games (FO4, 1-2 others) but we're talking apparently 1%-3% in terms of FPS, so 2FPS average gain @ 60FPS, but in GPU based games that won't be as evident if at all.
In terms of % cost increase from 2400 to 3200, you need to decide is that's worth while.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.techspot.com/amp/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performance/?client=ms-android-samsung
But I am interested in a source for your numbers - only three games will see a max of a 3% improvement? That doesn't match either my personal experience, or the articles available on the subject - and, as you've fallen into the trap of thinking the average frames per second is the important figure in this case, I think that exposes just what an expert you are on the subject. :wink: As mentioned repeatedly by everyone with any experience or technical knowledge, it's the minimum frame rates where you see/feel the benefit, and it's a lot more than 3% in most 2015-onwards AAA games. Let me guess: you're another DDR4-2133 owner? I'm sorry if that's the case, but please don't be that horrible kind of person that wants everyone else to make the same mistake you've made.
Fortunately I rely on other [more informed] journalists and tech review sites to source my information, but getting my mates over to my bedroom for a day blindfolding each other sounds like a great day too.
For reference, I still use DDR3 1800 on my 1050 rig because just like DDR4, RAM isn't the bottleneck of my system and it likely isn't in yours either. When I upgrade to Ryzen, I'll use 2400 because frequency makes zero difference for 99% of tasks. I'll use the extra money I save to buy you a pint of shandy.
There's a ton of information on this, Toms Hardware, Ars, Techspot and they all agree. Spend money on your GPU is you're a gamer, and your CPU if you run computation tasks like rendering.
Most of the games you mentioned (to illustrate the fact your day was wasted, and better spent getting fresh air):
8GB vs 16GB:
I'm also sorry to hear that you have some terrible wasting disease that means that 90 minutes is a full day for you. I'm healthy, so I get 16-17 hours of waking time each day. 90 minutes of playing games and drinking whisky with friends [real friends who I can meet in real life, if you're unfamiliar with the concept] before going out for the evening doesn't exactly destroy a day for us. I'm not sure where the blindfolding comes from, though..? We usually don't do that until after we get back in. :man:
Thank you for referencing Ars, TomsHardware and Techspot before then going on to produce benchmarks from... TechBuyersGuru. :smile: It's good to see you do have a sense of humour after all. (And, unless I'm much mistaken, weren't those taken from a quad-channel X99 system? :smile: Hardly representative for gamers in general, let alone the HUKD crowd!) You'll obviously see more benefit on a dual-channel system - and either you're technically-inept, and you didn't know the difference; or you did know, and purposely chose to use unrepresentative benchmarks to win Internet points at the risk of giving bad purchasing advice to everyone else reading. Again, don't be that horrible kind of person, please. Our comments here are supposed to help people with purchases.
It's nice to hear you talk about theoretical performance bottlenecks without referencing the effects in practice - that at least proves that you're not an experienced technical user. If you're interested in reading up on actual performance differences (of which I've checked just a couple for myself to confirm, and shared my experience with the people here - thank you for telling me I can't have experienced what I did experience and what all the other articles claim to have experienced, though), there's a nice collation of multiple articles and summarised results here. If you have any questions, I'm happy to help. :smiley:
(Your "8GB vs 16GB" graph seems to be on a completely different topic..? Still, it agrees with another link I shared a few hours ago - no apparent difference in game performance between 8GB and 16GB of RAM.)
I don't care that you don't know about BIOS profiles, don't understand the difference between memory frequencies and memory timings, don't know how to test PC performance yourself, and don't understand the difference between dual-channel and quad-channel setups. I do care that other people might see those quad-channel benchmarks and think that they somehow apply to DDR4 memory frequencies on typical motherboards, e.g. Z170 boards, when they... don't.
It seems you're one of those horrible people after all, happier to mislead people than accept that things change. :disappointed: Still, maybe you'll win the Internet! Hooray for you!
Like I said, you were wrong, there's no difference kiddo.