Question Ryzen 2700x ram upgrade question

[Spike]

Hi, been running my new build for a couple of weeks now and enjoying it. However, I did little to no research on the ram and just went with a deal ending up with crucial ballistix sport LT (model BLS2K8G4D30BESBK). It's DDR4 3000 at 16-18-18-38 and I have 4x8gb sticks of it. I had 0 issues enabling the XMP profile to put it at its rated speed and it passed memtest no problem. However, now I'm wondering if it would make sense to try and get either 16gb or 32gb of samsung b-die 3200 CL14 . Can anyone give me a rough idea of what the performance difference would be? This is primarily for gaming and photo editing if that helps.

Thanks!

 

[Gt403cyl]

Personally if you are running 3000/16 4x8GB it wouldn’t be enough of a boost to go 3200/14.

Will there be a difference? Yes
Will it be a big difference? No

Just my opinion.

Should say though it depends on the use case... gaming won’t be a big difference, rendering/editing might be a bigger boost but still for me wouldn’t be worth the change.

 

[UsandThem]

I personally wouldn't worry about taking a loss on your current memory, to buy slightly faster RAM. Now if you were rocking DDR4 2133 or 2400, I would say it would be definitely worth it. But only 200Mhz higher with tighter timings, I'd say keep what you have. CAS 16 isn't that bad (there are modules out there that are CAS 18-19).

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11857/memory-scaling-on-ryzen-7-with-team-groups-night-hawk-rgb
https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwrevie...ame-streaming-cpu-benchmarks-memory?showall=1

 

[Spike]

Thanks both, looks like I get to go the cheap/easy way and leave it as is.

Really enjoying this Ryzen a lot, glad I took a chance to return to AMD again after a few intel builds. Real competition is always nice!

 

[UsandThem]

Thanks both, looks like I get to go the cheap/easy way and leave it as is.

Really enjoying this Ryzen a lot, glad I took a chance to return to AMD again after a few intel builds. Real competition is always nice!

If I were building a new PC today, I'd go with a 2700X build as well.

 

[Spike]

If I were building a new PC today, I'd go with a 2700X build as well.

I probably should have waited for zen 2, but I was impatient. That and I am typically only stateside once a year so if I want to take advantage of US prices on components the window is fairly narrow, though I do have family mule stuff over a lot 😉 One of my favorite parts about the Ryzen is that I can enable XFR2 and PB2 and call it good. It's certainly made me lazy 🙂

 

[VirtualLarry]

Would it make sense to get a 1700X, from a 1600? I'd have to pick up a cooler. (Do have 1x used and 1x new CoolerMaster 120mm AIO, as well as 1x new 240mm CM AIO.)

 

[UsandThem]

Would it make sense to get a 1700X, from a 1600? I'd have to pick up a cooler. (Do have 1x used and 1x new CoolerMaster 120mm AIO, as well as 1x new 240mm CM AIO.)

Unless you have a specific need for the 1700X, I'd say no this late in the game.

At this point, I would wait for Zen 2 and pick up a discounted CPU like the 2600(x) or 2700(x). If it's anything like it was when they launched the updated CPUs, there will be good deals to be had at that time.

 

[Spike]

Unless you have a specific need for the 1700X, I'd say no this late in the game.

At this point, I would wait for Zen 2 and pick up a discounted CPU like the 2600(x) or 2700(x). If it's anything like it was when they launched the updated CPUs, there will be good deals to be had at that time.

Is it sad that I'm already itching to see what Zen 2 prices are like post launch craziness? If my motherboard can handle Zen 2 with minimal issues it will be really tempting to upgrade from my brand new 2700x. Not quite sure why, but there it is.