I built my computer in 2021 with a Ryzen 5 5600x, a RTX 3070, and 16gb RAM. I’ve been running on a 27" 1440p monitor on level 8 graphics setting (though I pushed the 3 draw distances to max) @ 60 fps. The only places I get slowdowns are in Valdrakken and the soup event when bosses spawn.
Will upgrading to 32gb help with slowdowns, or am I CPU/GPU maxed? In Valdrakken I can be 45-50 and during the soup bosses I’ll drop to about 40. I could also drop some graphics settings I suppose, but I’m wondering if the RAM would help smooth out my setting of 8.
not really. might get you to dual rank configuration, which could give you a few FPS, but running 4 dimms especially on AMD CPUs is going to probably result in lowered memory frequency for stability and could rob you of any actual gains.
The single, best upgrade you can do is get a 5800X3D. It will compete in almost all games favorably with even the most expensive new CPUs.
what Sal said, your dips are due to the CPU and you are in CPU intensive areas where the dips happen. For 1440p, your GPU is plenty especially at level 8. I have both 32GB and 16GB in my systems (currently both Intel) and you can not tell the difference between them in gaming especially for WoW. I don’t think I push past 12GB in WoW and that includes having a few add ons, Hulu in my browser streaming a game, and discord open.
32GB would come into play more if you were streaming, running a ton of background programs (why if you are gaming?) or for professional use.
much like RAM for graphics cards, needing an amount and using an amount are two different things. Your PC will often utilize as much system RAM as it can but that does not necessarily mean it needs it. You would need to run benchmarks to see if there was an impact of less RAM on the system.
If you do upgrade just swap the ram out for all the same. Like all 4 sticks are from the same package.
I recently got another 2x8gb sticks and it was causing issues like the game result freeze for a sec or 2 and cause the display driver to crash. Taking out the new sticks and everything is working great again.
The new sticks where of the same brand/model (Corsair vergence lpx) but there’s some minor changes to ram timings (all 4 where CL18) or such that I guess was causing the issue/conflict. Or maybe just the new sticks have the issue.
Was meaning to swap them out with the old ones to test it out but was to lazy. Maybe this weekend I’ll test it before sending it back.
If you got the 5950x instead it wouldn’t have changed much. There’s more to it than the “i9” or “Ryzen 9.”
After a certain point, wider performance (more cores) isn’t that helpful, and you just need more single threaded punch. In the case of the 5800X3D, it’s a specific gaming case for the increased cache. Otherwise, that chip is actually worse than its 5800X counterpart.
what Sal said, in fact you have a very well balanced gaming PC. If it was mine, I would hold off on any RAM upgrade. No point in spending money on outdated tech and DDR5 RAM is the new tech. In two years time, if you are going to purchase a “high end” processor than we are talking about a platform using DDR5 RAM. If anything I would maybe look into a GPU upgrade in two years. You can always carry over that GPU to a new build as opposed to DDR4 RAM.