RAM Influence on Gaming

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CToleR

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Can i get more frame rates ( about 5-6 fps ) by upgrading my 4gb 1333mhz single channel ram to 1600 dual channel 4gb in games.
To sum up: Does single channel and more mhz ram makes difference in FPS! Consider i have decent gpu and cpu ( its AMD rig )
 
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As a matter of fact, no game uses more than 4gb of ram. The thing is, if that you wanted to do anything on computer while gaming, you could have some free ram to do it. If you have the budget and willing to do it, go for it BUT dont expect huge difference in the games, you will get a maximum of 2 fps if the ram was bad and i think your current ram is not that bad to cause dips in performance.
 
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The only things I noticed upgrading from to 8gb from 4gb is that I can alt-tab in and out of any application or game fluently and it got rid of the slight chop I had if bf3. As far as upgrading ram speed dual channel 1333 will be enough of a boost if you already have a 1333 stick.
 
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you should never run your ram in single channel mode these days. Get another module in there ASAP. Going to 1600MHz wont give you much boost as such, but if the old stick has very relaxed sub timings and the new 1600 kit has very tight timings it might be worth the money. Better choice would probably be to buy identical 4GB 1333MHz module so you'd have 8GB ram in dual channel mode in the end.
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I agree regarding the timings being more important than the bus speed, but I have to disagree on the single/dual channel. Running a computer on 1x4gb ram or 2x2gb or 4x1gb makes no real difference at all.
 
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really? got any links?

recent piece i've just read
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7364/memory-scaling-on-haswell
"When a user purchases memory, it comes with an associated number of sticks, each stick is of a certain size, memory speed, set of subtimings and voltage. In fact the importance of order is such that:
1. Amount of memory
2. Number of sticks of memory
3. Placement of those sticks in the motherboard
4. The MHz of the memory
5. If XMP/AMP is enabled
6. The subtimings of the memory"

the number of sticks and their placement refers directly to the channels, rated at #2 and 3
 
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