[SOLVED] Is my ram possibly slowing down the performance of my 3060 ti & 11700fk

[FolksySpade]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50307419 (Refer to the benchmark for full PC specs)

I purchased this setup around a week ago expecting to get near to accurate FPS to builds similar to mine, but it seems like it struggles to get anywhere near to what people advertise on youtube. In games like Sea of Thieves (Ultra 1080p) people would get around 100-160 fps sitting around at an outpost, where as I'd struggle to get 60-90 and there's constant drops while rendering things in. The same goes for a game like Hunt Showdown. Again, someone with a CPU similar to mine and a with a 3060ti would get 140 fps on Ultra, and I'd struggle to maintain 70. Based on my benchmark scoring it looks like the read/write abilities of my ram are nearly half the speed as anyone else, and if not slower than my old sticks of ram from my previous desktop that sat around 2133 hz. The latency even spikes to as high as 110+ during some of my benchmarks.

 

[Ralston18]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Take a look in Task Manager and Resource Monitor to determine what resources are being used, to what extent (%), and what is using any given resource.

Compare between non-gaming and gaming along with between different games.

Process Explorer (Microsoft, free) may also prove helpful.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

 

[FolksySpade]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Take a look in Task Manager and Resource Monitor to determine what resources are being used, to what extent (%), and what is using any given resource.

Compare between non-gaming and gaming along with between different games.

Process Explorer (Microsoft, free) may also prove helpful.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

The benchmark link should provide all that information right?

 

[Macovitch]

Another bottleneck to note, motherboards can only support up to a certain GB of ram, and depending on the motherboards clock speed it can only support certain speeds of RAM.

What is your system specs, CPU, Motherboard model, RAM speed and size?

 

[FolksySpade]

Another bottleneck to note, motherboards can only support up to a certain GB of ram, and depending on the motherboards clock speed it can only support certain speeds of RAM.

What is your system specs, CPU, Motherboard model, RAM speed and size?

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50307419
Intel Core i7-11700KF
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Nvme PM9A1 Samsung 512GB
Unknown XRMWRN-MIE2 1x16GB

 

[Macovitch]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50307419
Intel Core i7-11700KF
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Nvme PM9A1 Samsung 512GB
Unknown XRMWRN-MIE2 1x16GB

What motherboard do you have?

You can tell by pressing {Windows + R} and typing "msinfo32"
Then under system summary it will be whats listed next to BaseBoard Manufacturer, and BaseBoard Product

 

[kanewolf]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50307419 (Refer to the benchmark for full PC specs)

I purchased this setup around a week ago expecting to get near to accurate FPS to builds similar to mine, but it seems like it struggles to get anywhere near to what people advertise on youtube. In games like Sea of Thieves (Ultra 1080p) people would get around 100-160 fps sitting around at an outpost, where as I'd struggle to get 60-90 and there's constant drops while rendering things in. The same goes for a game like Hunt Showdown. Again, someone with a CPU similar to mine and a with a 3060ti would get 140 fps on Ultra, and I'd struggle to maintain 70. Based on my benchmark scoring it looks like the read/write abilities of my ram are nearly half the speed as anyone else, and if not slower than my old sticks of ram from my previous desktop that sat around 2133 hz. The latency even spikes to as high as 110+ during some of my benchmarks.

Looking at your userbenchmarks, the answer would be YES. Because you only have single channel RAM. You want a matched set of two DIMMs for maximum performance.

 

[Macovitch]

Looking at your userbenchmarks, the answer would be YES. Because you only have single channel RAM. You want a matched set of two DIMMs for maximum performance.

I would agree, I would suggest 2x8 GB of RAM before 1xanything.

 

[Bob.B]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50307419 (Refer to the benchmark for full PC specs)

I purchased this setup around a week ago expecting to get near to accurate FPS to builds similar to mine, but it seems like it struggles to get anywhere near to what people advertise on youtube. In games like Sea of Thieves (Ultra 1080p) people would get around 100-160 fps sitting around at an outpost, where as I'd struggle to get 60-90 and there's constant drops while rendering things in. The same goes for a game like Hunt Showdown. Again, someone with a CPU similar to mine and a with a 3060ti would get 140 fps on Ultra, and I'd struggle to maintain 70. Based on my benchmark scoring it looks like the read/write abilities of my ram are nearly half the speed as anyone else, and if not slower than my old sticks of ram from my previous desktop that sat around 2133 hz. The latency even spikes to as high as 110+ during some of my benchmarks.

Run UBM again but this time reboot and wait a few mins.
Then run UBM with the browser closed.
Post a LINK to the results.

 

[FolksySpade]

What motherboard do you have?

You can tell by pressing {Windows + R} and typing "msinfo32"
Then under system summary it will be whats listed next to BaseBoard Manufacturer, and BaseBoard Product

It says Alienware 07W25T

 

[FolksySpade]

Looking at your userbenchmarks, the answer would be YES. Because you only have single channel RAM. You want a matched set of two DIMMs for maximum performance.

I have 2 3600 mhz CAS 16 on the way to replace it, and by the way it looks my motherboard should be able to run it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed to seeing a performance boost

 

[Macovitch]

I have 2 3600 mhz CAS 16 on the way to replace it, and by the way it looks my motherboard should be able to run it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed to seeing a performance boost

Let me know if that RAM fixes it, usually its a better idea to just stick to 2 or 4 sticks rather than 1 or 3, some motherboards run triple channel but it is not as common as dual or quad.