Will I notice a difference if I upgrade my memory?

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I recently upgraded some of my components and now have the following:

Corsair Obsidian 650D
ASRock Z97 Extreme6 MoBo
Intel Core i7-4790K Processor
Seasonic SS-760XP2 Platinum PSU
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E250B/AM)
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 3 TB 7200RPM SATA 6 Gb/s HDDs
Lite-On iHBS212 12x Internal Blu-ray Disc Drive

In looking at the specs of my new motherboard, I noticed that it supports 3200+ speed memory. As said above, my memory, which I think is my oldest component, is only 1600. Is this holding my system back? During my brief research, I didn't see any memory that's really near this 3200 speed it supposedly supports.
 
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Depends.....

In gaming for example.... fps difference can be less than 1% (116.8 / 116.7) as in Metro LL ... then again it can be bigger than 11% (177 / 159) as in F1, with single card systems. Add a 2nd card and often the bottleneck is not GFX capability but other components, one of which is RAM. Also RAM has a much bigger impact in minimum fps than average, as those fps drops are sometimes caused by other components not being able to keep up for short durations.

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When building new, I never uses less than 2133 (+ $0 - $8) nor more than 2400 (+ $10 - $25) as anything bigger just has too big of a cost impact.

However, I can't see tossing 1600 for 2400.

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iam2thecrowe

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ram faster than 1600 will give minor improvements in some games, many games wont see any improvement. I would say, if you are happy with the machines performance, then no need to do anything with the ram. If you have a particular game that is having some kind of performance issue, then look into what is causing it.
 
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Depends.....

In gaming for example.... fps difference can be less than 1% (116.8 / 116.7) as in Metro LL ... then again it can be bigger than 11% (177 / 159) as in F1, with single card systems. Add a 2nd card and often the bottleneck is not GFX capability but other components, one of which is RAM. Also RAM has a much bigger impact in minimum fps than average, as those fps drops are sometimes caused by other components not being able to keep up for short durations.

image006.png


When building new, I never uses less than 2133 (+ $0 - $8) nor more than 2400 (+ $10 - $25) as anything bigger just has too big of a cost impact.

However, I can't see tossing 1600 for 2400.

 
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