Hi all,
I'm hoping a few folks might chime in on this, as my last post didn't generate any answers when I'd hoped to get some CPU / mobo upgrade advice - so it goes.
In any case, I've upgraded my OLD system to Win10 with an AMD 1090T in an MSI 970 Gaming mobo cooled with a Hyper 212 and running on an OCZ Stealth 700W PS - no issues there. I've also taken along 2x HD 5770 Radeon cards in Crossfire, running nicely along until I get an RX470.
The question is: should I keep my 16gb of Mushkin Silverline DDR3, or upgrade?
There's some good sales coming up in November( Black Friday / Cyber Monday )and I'd like to grab some *better* RAM, but the issue is, I don't know if the RAM I have is doing just fine... I've been overclocking the CPU to 3600mHz using MSI's OC Genie and it's running great, but I think the ram's reached its limits, as you can see from this screenshot:
Thing is, ALL of the DDR3 / DDR4 RAM I've been looking at, no matter how pricey or fancy, seems to have WORSE timings than what I already have( 8-8-8-24 ). I mean, a set of Kingston HyperX 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) DUAL/QUAD Channel going on eBay right now is 11-11-11-28, and that's stuff that's 4 years old... the newer sets have 15-15-15-35 timings or higher.
What gives?
I understand that if I want to manually overclock my CPU further, I'll need some better RAM than PC-10700 that can push past 667mhz, but if the timings are MUCH higher, isn't that worse?
I've read various Guides To Overclocking, specifically the parts about memory timings, and I just can't seem to see how RAM with higher timings than mine make a rig BETTER for overclocking. If anyone can point me in the right direction so I can make an INFORMED purchase this coming month, I'd be REALLY grateful - going to 32gb on this PC with room for casual OCing in my spare time would be GREAT, especially as tweaking the Northbridge with a PhenomII seems to be a good way to go with my setup before adding a 470 when they drop a little more in price.
Thanks!
I'm hoping a few folks might chime in on this, as my last post didn't generate any answers when I'd hoped to get some CPU / mobo upgrade advice - so it goes.
In any case, I've upgraded my OLD system to Win10 with an AMD 1090T in an MSI 970 Gaming mobo cooled with a Hyper 212 and running on an OCZ Stealth 700W PS - no issues there. I've also taken along 2x HD 5770 Radeon cards in Crossfire, running nicely along until I get an RX470.
The question is: should I keep my 16gb of Mushkin Silverline DDR3, or upgrade?
There's some good sales coming up in November( Black Friday / Cyber Monday )and I'd like to grab some *better* RAM, but the issue is, I don't know if the RAM I have is doing just fine... I've been overclocking the CPU to 3600mHz using MSI's OC Genie and it's running great, but I think the ram's reached its limits, as you can see from this screenshot:
Thing is, ALL of the DDR3 / DDR4 RAM I've been looking at, no matter how pricey or fancy, seems to have WORSE timings than what I already have( 8-8-8-24 ). I mean, a set of Kingston HyperX 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) DUAL/QUAD Channel going on eBay right now is 11-11-11-28, and that's stuff that's 4 years old... the newer sets have 15-15-15-35 timings or higher.
What gives?
I understand that if I want to manually overclock my CPU further, I'll need some better RAM than PC-10700 that can push past 667mhz, but if the timings are MUCH higher, isn't that worse?
I've read various Guides To Overclocking, specifically the parts about memory timings, and I just can't seem to see how RAM with higher timings than mine make a rig BETTER for overclocking. If anyone can point me in the right direction so I can make an INFORMED purchase this coming month, I'd be REALLY grateful - going to 32gb on this PC with room for casual OCing in my spare time would be GREAT, especially as tweaking the Northbridge with a PhenomII seems to be a good way to go with my setup before adding a 470 when they drop a little more in price.
Thanks!