I will be upgrading from a 7600x to a 9800x3d. I currently have a pair of DDR5 4800 CL40 RAM. I am wondering if I will see any noticeable improvements if I upgrade to a 6000 CL30 ram kit?
WOW is the only game I play, and I play on graphics 10 settings with a 3080 on a widescreen 38" monitor at 3840*1600 resolution.
Thanks.
It does have a measurable impact. It won’t be earth shattering, like a full CPU or GPU upgrade, but it’s worth the minor cost for investing into.
They do make CL28 6000 mhz RAM kits, too, but the gap between 28 and 30 is much more negligible than just getting a better kit in general. CL30 is regarded as the sweet spot for AMD chips, and it’s what’s most widely used in testing for them on Zen 4 and Zen 5 (AM5).
shifty just built a 9800x3d system for a friend and can probably answer that question. From my understanding, AMD X3D CPUs are not as reliant on CPU frequency as their intel counterparts once you reach a relative performance level of RAM.
It will have an impact, especially since I’m pretty sure wow is highly memory latency sensitive (IE: high memory latency reduces performance more than other games, and 4800cl40 is about as slow as you can go for DDR5).
The x3d cache does work to mitigate it, but As far as applications go, wow will be on the larger side of performance impact from that upgrade.
you use a 9800x3d with a 3080 lol… bruh. what is the point. you need to have a balance between gpu and cpu to avoid bottlenecking. the cas latency difference between 40 and 30 wont be noticeable to the eye. even if you went to 8000mhz ram you wouldnt notice even if you know how to clock it properly to get it to perform the best with the fclck, the mclck and timings. However, you will have a major noticeable change if you upgrade your gpu. ive got 9800x3d and a 4080 super and even that is like the bare minimum for a 9800x3d. without a high end gpu, you are not getting max performance from the 9800x3d because your gpu is bottlenecking regardless of wow being a cpu dominant game. the ram is the least of your issues.
in this game there’s definitely a benefit of going CPU heavy; 3080 is more than enough to warrant a CPU upgrade to a 9800X3D when it matters
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you both may be right and it’s hard to judge because we don’t know the monitor refresh rate, I know Dell has 38" 1600p that’s only 60hz while others have 144hz. We also don’t know the OP’s upgrade schedule and length of time for platform ownership and since the post is old we probably won’t know.
38" 1600p that’s only 60hz? Yeah that’s not balanced since the RTX 3080 is ballpark RTX4070 performance will basically hold that on its own the 7600x
@1440hz, the 9800X3D will definitely bring the floor up on the min 1% and show some decent improvement on avg (RTX 3080 will hold back some performance there)
if the OP decides to go with a more powerful card in the near future then obviously the CPU will shine even more
also it’s the OP money, he can have a 9800X3D & RTX 3050 build; his question was in RAM speed not a CPU upgrade.
*all PCs have a bottleneck somewhere depending on the the app they are running, their hardware, or their monitor
even at 60hz, there will be times when a 9800x3d will pull the game out from below that threshold where a 7600x would still falter some
i was playing on the WoW refresh server over the weekend (ultra settings, 1440p, @ 144FPS) and even then I still got some lag spikes because of the high volume of players on the server. The 9800X3D will help on any downstream low FPS issues but upstream issues still remain in the game in retail and even classic. Just be glad you are not playing LOTRO where server lag is a given regardless of C2D E7600, i5-7600, 7600x or 7600X3D.
Thanks all for the replies. So on my end, there are no updates because I’m still waiting for Amazon to actually ship me the CPU. I’ll also just use my existing RAM based on feedback.
Max refresh rate of my monitor is 144 FPS, and indeed I think a 3080 should be more than enough for WOW, with an x3D CPU impacting the performance the most. I may get a 5070 when it releases depending on reviews etc.