do I NEED ddr4 ram for an nvidia 1060 3gb

[adrian96]

or am i okay with ddr3? and if i had ddr4 will my performance improve big time if i'm running it on a crappy cpu like an 8320-8 core processor in my games?

 

[akimikage]

To put it simply, no and no
Stick to your DDR3. There's no need to spend any more money

 

[Karadjgne]

You are getting things mixed up. The gpu has exactly nothing to do with your system ram. Nothing. Your motherboard only supports 240pin DDR3. DDR4 is 288pin, it physically will not fit in your motherboard. Your motherboard is Am3+, as in ddr3, you would need an Am4 motherboard to use ddr4. The FX8320 is an Am3+ cpu. It does not physically fit on an Am4 motherboard, and Am4 motherboards are for the new Ryzen cpus.

So the answer is No, you will not get any better performance using ddr4 with an 8320 because they do not work together.

You want better, either buy a New pc, such as a Ryzen or kaby-lake Intel, or learn what your pc really can do, and do it. That means using the fastest ddr3 ram your motherboard will support, buying the best cooler that you can afford and learning just how far you can overclock your 8320 on that particular mobo.

 

[lordmogul]

Short answer: No
Long answer: Noooooooooo.
I can give an even more detailed example: I got a LGA775 Board with DDR2 memory and PCIe 1.1 and it can flawlessly run a card with GDDR5 and PCIe 3.0, no reason to "fit" the memory on the motherboard and graphics card. They are fully independent and should in no way influence each other besudes the usual performance impacts.