We’ve had a few days with our Zen 3 Ryzen 5800X and the bulk of that time has been spent investigating the impact of RAM speed on this new architecture. Since its inception, the Zen design has shown impressive performance scaling with RAM Speed. This a function of the design of the CPU itself. In […]
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Best RAM & Timings for Ryzen Zen 3 Builds in 2021
AMD have announced their Zen 3 CPUs and they’re set to release on 5th November. In this iteration they are claiming to have bested Intel in all metrics making these the most powerful consumer CPU’s available. With Ryzen 2 we found there was significant performance scaling with RAM speed increases and this is attributable to […]
Ryzen RAM Speeds – An investigation into what REALLY is the Best RAM for Ryzen.
It’s taken as gospel that Ryzen CPU performance, in particular Zen 2, scales with ram speed. We wanted to investigate this further so that we can find out about the trade off with ram cost, and also ascertain if this is just a theoretical benefit or if it can bring a real world advantage. For […]
DDR5 RAM: Will It Be Worth the Wait?
The most important components in regards to hardware performance for a PC, gaming or otherwise, are the CPU, the GPU, the motherboard and, of course, the RAM. So far, within 2020, we have received Intel’s 10th generation CPUs, AMD’s Ryzen 3 and Ryzen XT series processors, and we are soon to receive Nvidia’s RTX Ampere […]
How Much RAM Do I Need for Gaming in 2021? Overview of CAS Latencies, Timings & RAM Size
The release of Intel’s 10th generation ‘Comet Lake‘ CPUs, which are optimized for gaming, the release of AMD’s Ryzen 3 3300X and XT series CPUs, the soon to come Nvidia Ampere 3000 series GPUs, and, to top it all off, the release of new generation games for the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5, make […]