Theory vs Praxtice on OC 3200 RAM with Ryzen builds

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As I go through the sections of this site I'm now moving from

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3476957/good-budget-mobo-1600-build.html

... to here.

So now it's a Ryzen 5 1600 on Asus Prime b350m-a

I've read stuff and watched people who seem to know a lot and get the impression that memory OC is not really making a real world difference. Sure In some artificial benchmark you can eke out another 20% of speed. It you pay for in $ as well as possible stability issues.

For example I saw a comparison video and they showed 7-zip performance (I hate waiting ages to decompress a rar file) and the difference between 2133 and 3200 memory was silly small.

I'm certainly interested in stability of my system because what I hate even more than waiting for file copy to finish is rebooting my system and redoing 20 minutes of 3D work.

Also I am learning that 8GB is really quite enough for almost all activities. When I play games I don't also use photoshop. I just don't. Maybe I'll one day record some game play and put it on YouTube but even then I Imagine memory management in windows 10 is so efficient now that I can run GTA V and Vegas Pro at the same time and still get away with 8 GB... or am I fooling myself?

I'd certainly prefer paying $50 for 2x 4GB 2133 instead of forking over $140 for 2x 8GB 3200

Or am I missing something?
 
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Well, in my experience and also other's, its might be difficult to run 3200 RAM on most MBs anyway but between 2133 and 3200 is pretty wide gap and memory speed does make a difference in CPU scores and that translates to some FPS increase. How much, it depends on a particular game and CPU requirements.
8GB should be plenty enough for today's games if you do little at same time.
Well, in my experience and also other's, its might be difficult to run 3200 RAM on most MBs anyway but between 2133 and 3200 is pretty wide gap and memory speed does make a difference in CPU scores and that translates to some FPS increase. How much, it depends on a particular game and CPU requirements.
8GB should be plenty enough for today's games if you do little at same time.
 
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