Advice on Ram for BF4 system - What to do?

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Slayerof100

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Hi All

I am looking to upgrade my ram as that is probably the last step i need for a fairly decent gaming pc - Rig is intended for BF4 and to basically last straight through the current gen of PS4 and xbone.

My current system :
AMD 6core 2.8 (or 2.4)
ATI HD7870 2Gb
4Gb lowest budget value select dd3 1333mhz ram
Gigabyte Am3 880G-UD3H Motherboard

Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit

Now please help with the following :

Would you recommend this ram :
www.rebeltech.co.za/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=7418

Please note i am not going over this price at all -

Would this give me much better gaming performance than what i am currently getting?

Also i see corsair is optimised for intel, is it going to work on my amd system and will there be a major difference?

Thanks for the advice
 
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Yes, the Corsair Vengeance RAM will work fine.

You'll definitely see an increase in FPS after you upgrade from 1333 to 1600 memory. It was confirmed that BF4 prefers higher clocked memory modules.

I'm using the same RAM but in a 4x4GB configuration and it's definitely helped.
 
Thanks for the reply, would you say it's worth the money? Also i checked now, my motherboard being slightly old supports Support for DDR3 1866(OC)/1333/1066 MHz memory modules (1600???) so now i'm worried i'm going to be this and not going to notice any performance increase whatsoever. However i should be able to o/c the ram just fine.

Are you running that on an amd system?
 
Slayerof100 said:
Thanks for the reply, would you say it's worth the money? Also i checked now, my motherboard being slightly old supports Support for DDR3 1866(OC)/1333/1066 MHz memory modules (1600???) so now i'm worried i'm going to be this and not going to notice any performance increase whatsoever. However i should be able to o/c the ram just fine.

Are you running that on an amd system?
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I'm running an Intel system, but I built an AMD system for my girlfriend using the same RAM and there are no compatibility problems.

And 1600 RAM will run just fine on your board. My girlfriend's board is a lot older than yours and runs 1600 just fine.
 
@Slayerof100, the ram will run fine but the thing is your mother board supports DDR3 1866(OC)/1333/1066 MHz so basically that 1600 MHz ram will only be running on 1333 MHz till you over clock it then it will be running on 1600 HMz.
 
spectratec guy said:
@Slayerof100, the ram will run fine but the thing is your mother board supports DDR3 1866(OC)/1333/1066 MHz so basically that 1600 MHz ram will only be running on 1333 MHz till you over clock it then it will be running on 1600 HMz.
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So all i have to do is oc the ram then? No problems there should be able to
 
DuckKnuckle said:
Yes, the Corsair Vengeance RAM will work fine.

You'll definitely see an increase in FPS after you upgrade from 1333 to 1600 memory. It was confirmed that BF4 prefers higher clocked memory modules.

I'm using the same RAM but in a 4x4GB configuration and it's definitely helped.
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I would take those claims with a pinch of salt, it was done by a company that sells RAM and also it was done on the beta so the results may vary greatly.

@ OP Going up from 4 to 8 Gb's is going to make a huge difference in any way.
 
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That has to be a typo...the chances of it supporting 1866 but not 1600 seems unlikely.

If true though then the OC angle strikes me as a uniquely horrible plan. 16% push & stable...unlikely unless you cut some serious slack on timings.

Also...pretty kak time to be upgrading RAM specifically.

Glordit said:
I would take those claims with a pinch of salt, it was done by a company that sells RAM and also it was done on the beta so the results may vary greatly.
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Looks about right to me. Sure they selected an ideal scenario, but its not that wild imo. They increase ram speed 50% and got a ~20% boost in benchmarks.

These things are crazy sensitive to all kinds of things though. e.g. on the older gen you could drop the speed on the RAM and score improved benchmarks because of 1:1 timing. Not as relevant today, but my point is these things are sometimes a bit funky.
 
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HavocXphere said:
That has to be a typo...the chances of it supporting 1866 but not 1600 seems unlikely.

If true though then the OC angle strikes me as a uniquely horrible plan. 16% push & stable...unlikely unless you cut some serious slack on timings.

Also...pretty kak time to be upgrading RAM specifically.


Looks about right to me. Sure they selected an ideal scenario, but its not that wild imo. They increase ram speed 50% and got a ~20% boost in benchmarks.

These things are crazy sensitive to all kinds of things though. e.g. on the older gen you could drop the speed on the RAM and score improved benchmarks because of 1:1 timing. Not as relevant today, but my point is these things are sometimes a bit funky.
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Battlefield could also just crash due to the OC on the RAM, many people are claiming to have stability issues while others are having none. At the end of the day it's a hit or miss scenario, you could OC get a fps boosts and it works, on the other hand you could OC and have an unstable game. IMHO, get 8GB's of RAM it will make loading quicker and eliminate micro stutter.
 
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Thanks for the replies guys - just for interest sake i dropped the timings on my current 4gb setup last night by one each and played battlefield without any instability or anything but also no noticeable improvement. It is a pretty kak time to be upgrading i agree and i always kind of believed you can slack on ram as long as you have the cpu and gpu to back it up. However still trolling around with 4gb is just going to give me problems in the future anyway (battlefield 4 not working as well as it should, starcraft 2 freezing up on me, Guild wars 2, modded skyrim) so a upgrade is at least an upgrade. Guess i could've gone more expensive but then i'd also have to get a new mobo as the site on Gigabyte said it only supports that speeds (which even to me sounds a bit strange). Also my 2 HD's is from the stone age so if this helps me not to use page file i am happy
 
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