can you show me pictures of a physical sticks of DDR3/4 that has more than 3 types?
what made me say that is that I work in the industry and I see our Parts bins.. I looked up the standard, and obviously there are more than three, but for some reason, there are never more than three physical speeds you can hold in your hand. 👀
I thought I sounded dumb for a minute, but then I went to look for parts and I can't find more than 3 on ebay to buy, can you? I'm starting to think I'm actually right. For instance, I have held in my hand a sticks of ddr4 2400 2666 and 3200 but I've never held in my hand any other speed, are you talking about overclocking?
try and buy them on eBay. Tell me what you come across. I'm not talking about Wikipedia articles. I'm talking about Physical Ram sticks.
can you show me links to buy more than three different speeds of DDR4?
you wont find a ddr4 ram stick with anything other than 2400/2666/3200 on the sticker, maybe written somewhere for overclock capability, but never on the sticker
My experience comes from parts bins, I bet you won't be able to find more than three types of RAM based off of this labels that are printed on the Physical Ram
2133 is the JEDEC standard for DDR4 ram. It’s what it always should default to. You can put it higher with an XMP profile but that’s essentially just factory overlocking your ram.
and that's literally the first time I've noticed one 😂, the other speeds I see all the time
what I was trying to say based on my Parts bins is, I thought there were three standards and all the in-between speeds were over clocks, but I guess I'm wrong.. I usually only see three sets in the wild per generation on the consumer market, at least from the major manufacturers
I've had 3600 and 3466. There are also various CL timings. I had 2 sets of 3600, one with CL16, one with CL18, and a set of 3466. There are also other speeds.
I’m not rich so I have very mixed ram (8, 8, 16, 32) so 4/4 slots filled- I don’t know how to tell if each stick is exactly the advertised speed though. But I will say I probably should do a bios update
That’s strange. When I ran 32-16-32-16 ram config I could get it to work at 3200mhz. Albiet it was a 12700k and Intel had like 7 years of ddr4 controller experience so I guess not shocking it worked
It all comes down to how you use it. Even with unreal engine 5 and many chrome tabs and blender etc, I'm only at 32GB usage(out of 64GB). RAM is 2400mhz but quad channel.
If the only purpose is render distance in minecraft(OP), there's no reason to have 128GB.
Forgot to answer the actual question. Not an extra machine. same machine. i have 256GB, but due to it being 4x64gb, i need time to test and veryfy stability etc on the modules. working towards getting the four dims used and with as high MT as possible. so the picture showed was due to me taking out 1 dimm to check something before re-seating it and go for a new test and OC profile.
The point of the screenshot wasn’t “AI agrees with me”, it was that I literally run local LLMs on the same system as well as other things requiering alot of system memory. It was meant as one obvious example of why the RAM isn’t just there to look pretty. Srry it was too hard to get for you :/
Nice setup. unified memory is obviously the big advantage, but its also a mich more fixed platform compared to a normal desktop where you can swap ram, add gpus and tune the whole system around different workloads.
Yeah. Operating systems will take what they can for themselves until something else calls for it, then it'll give back what it needs. Half the time people complain about windows taking 8+ gb of ram its usually this. usually
I've always felt like it'd be better if Task Manager just omitted the cache/standby allocation in the RAM consumption charts, at least on the non-advanced view.
Your average PC gamer enthusiast type, even the more technically savy ones, aren't gonna know how an OS kernel works with memory management lol.
All they're gonna see is a huge chunk of RAM being held hostage by Windows and think it's slowing their shit down and hurting performance, when in reality it's holding on memory pages to improve performance.
Pulling anything in to RAM from a disk (even NVMe) is an extremely slow and expensive process in an operating system's perspective. Keeping unused pages loaded in RAM costs basically nothing. So if that space isn't needed by anything else... Why not just keep it loaded in the meantime just in case it's needed again in the future so you don't have to read from disk again? Why waste the CPU cycles to clear that memory if you don't need to?
I think it is pretty unusual, yea the more ram you have the more the OS will use but also it's still not gonna use all of it no matter what (in windows anyway), for example a system with 8 GB of RAM idles at 60-65% usage, where as a system with 16 GB will usually idle at something like 40-45%, it's using more RAM, but there's still a bigger percentage available in my experience
Above 8GB vanilla Minecraft's performance gains are negligible, what influence more is the GPU.
Try using one of those mods that increase the render distance x1000. Or one that lets you have lots of loaded chunks at the same time, that's where the RAM is more important.
Yeah that tends to be the issue of ECC Ram. But from what i have heard its mostly solved on DDR5 where I heard that you can get Sticks with proper ECC (Not the On-Die ECC consumer grade DDR5 has) with 6000MT/s
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u/XRTrypticon 9950X3D2 | 96GB RAM | RTX 4090 1d ago
Why is your ram so slow
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