Built a new PC

Clockwork

Clockwork

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I mentioned this in OT via the "What's the last thing you purchased?" thread, but I know not everyone reads that.

What I picked up:

- AMD Ryzen 9 5900x
- Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 3080
- Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus Wifi
- 1 TB Samsung 980 Pro PCIe Gen 4 NVMe
- 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro (2 x 16GB) 3600Mhz DDR4
- Corsair RM850x power supply
- NZXT H510 Flow ATX case
- NZXT Kraken X63 280mm Liquid CPU cooler
- Windows 11 Home
- CableMod C-Series Classic ModFlex Sleeved Cable Kit

I put everything together on Sunday, but the 3080 and cable kit (the stock Corsair PSU cables are so thick) don't arrive until tomorrow. In the interim I plopped in my 2080 just to make sure everything was running right.

So far so good.

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Meteor_of_War said:
Nice system. Congrats.

You guys that have 32GB of RAM - what exactly are you doing to utilize that? Or just future proofing?
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Well, my prior desktop (a 7 year old i7-6700K) has 32GB so I wasn't about to put in less on the new one. Plus it doesn't really cost that much to do so.

*shrug*
 
Meteor_of_War said:
Nice system. Congrats.

You guys that have 32GB of RAM - what exactly are you doing to utilize that? Or just future proofing?
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Future proofing. Along with that, large majority of 16GB sticks are dual rank, so they perform better for the average "set XMP and forget it" user. There are very few 8GB sticks that are dual rank that I know of. Single rank sticks can be manually tweaked to perform as well as dual rank but require that manual tweaking; of which 98% can't/won't do.

I wouldn't build a rig in 2022 with 16GB of RAM. Price of DDR4 is cheap enough as is.
 
16 GB ram causes hitching in some games. The ones I remember are:

BFV
COD MW
COD V
Borderlands 3
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Crew 2

There were some more but I can’t remember right now.
 
Clockwork said:
Well, my prior desktop (a 7 year old i7-6700K) has 32GB so I wasn't about to put in less on the new one. Plus it doesn't really cost that much to do so.

*shrug*
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Nunz said:
Future proofing. Along with that, large majority of 16GB sticks are dual rank, so they perform better for the average "set XMP and forget it" user. There are very few 8GB sticks that are dual rank that I know of. Single rank sticks can be manually tweaked to perform as well as dual rank but require that manual tweaking; of which 98% can't/won't do.

I wouldn't build a rig in 2022 with 16GB of RAM. Price of DDR4 is cheap enough as is.
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Yeah the price increase going from 16GB to 32GB is definitely reasonable, not too bad. Just checking Newegg looks like on average price delta is about 25-50% for double the capacity. But even still, skimming through benchmarks videos there seems to be no performance difference in any games. I don't see much point if there's no discernible difference for my use case. That's just me but yeah, I can see for future proofing might be worthwhile going with 32GB if you don't plan to upgrade for a long time.

KAC said:
16 GB ram causes hitching in some games. The ones I remember are:

BFV
COD MW
COD V
Borderlands 3
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Crew 2

There were some more but I can’t remember right now.
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Is this just your personal experience, or did you see articles/videos that did benchmarks showing this? Did you personally have the issue with 16GB, and when upgrading to 32GB the hitching went away?

I just played AC: Odyssey and it was smooth my whole playthrough. Didn't play the other games.
 
Meteor_of_War said:
Yeah the price increase going from 16GB to 32GB is definitely reasonable, not too bad. Just checking Newegg looks like on average price delta is about 25-50% for double the capacity. But even still, skimming through benchmarks videos there seems to be no performance difference in any games. I don't see much point if there's no discernible difference for my use case. That's just me but yeah, I can see for future proofing might be worthwhile going with 32GB if you don't plan to upgrade for a long time.
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There are performance differences between SR and DR, especially in min FPS/1% lows. 3600CL16 SR is slower than 3600CL16 DR, for example. If you already have SR, it's not worth the cost to upgrade specifically for dual rank, though. If you're on SR, I'd look into learning how to OC your memory; tightening your refresh interval specifically will make the difference negligible.
 
Nunz said:
There are performance differences between SR and DR, especially in min FPS/1% lows. 3600CL16 SR is slower than 3600CL16 DR, for example. If you already have SR, it's not worth the cost to upgrade specifically for dual rank, though. If you're on SR, I'd look into learning how to OC your memory; tightening your refresh interval specifically will make the difference negligible.
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But what kind of performance differences are you talking about? If you mean less than 10%, that's completely not worth my time at all considering my system is complete overkill for everything I'm using it for right now as it is.

It just sounds like splitting hairs. Or, something one who is more interested in getting the most performance possible out of their hardware as a hobby would care about.
 
Meteor_of_War said:
Is this just your personal experience, or did you see articles/videos that did benchmarks showing this? Did you personally have the issue with 16GB, and when upgrading to 32GB the hitching went away?

I just played AC: Odyssey and it was smooth my whole playthrough. Didn't play the other games.
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No issues here either.
 
Meteor_of_War said:
But what kind of performance differences are you talking about? If you mean less than 10%, that's completely not worth my time at all considering my system is complete overkill for everything I'm using it for right now as it is.

It just sounds like splitting hairs. Or, something one who is more interested in getting the most performance possible out of their hardware as a hobby would care about.
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Definitely not splitting hairs, even if it's 10% or less, but that's fine. If your system does what you need it to do, then carry on :up:
 
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