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what is going on YouTube you are watching J's two cents and today we are going to take a look at the question that you've been asking over and over and over again how to system RAM speed affect gaming performance and this is a little bita tech now right off the bat you're going to notice some really funky RAM speeds here showing in my BIOS and the reason for that is in order to get the max printed Ram speed on your module you actually have to overclock your processor you see I have 1866 megahertz REM here installed on my computer however the memory controller in the chip only can handle 1333 mega Hertz at stock speeds in order to get the higher profile speeds on the RAM you have to overclock the CPU and the bus speeds on my processor right now just happen to be making for some really unconventional Ram speeds but this video is going to give you an idea of what to expect now rather than use a live game like Battlefield 3 or Crysis 3 or something along those lines for benchmarking I opted to use Unigine Valley benchmark for consistent frame rates and comparisons just to see exactly how system RAM affects gaming performance and the results just may shock you now it's important to note that I have my GTX 680 currently running at 1350 to beggar Hertz and I have my AMD FX 8350 running at 4.8 gigahertz and the reason why you want to overclock your graphics card and your CPU when doing stress testing and RAM testing is because you want to have the most amount of load on the CPU as possible this way if Ram turns out to be any sort of a bottleneck it's going to show and in this case and the benchmarks there is absolutely no frames per second difference between 1200 and 79 megahertz and nineteen hundred and twenty megahertz if the benchmark doesn't see it this means you're not going to perceive any sort of frame per second changes while gaming regardless of the RAM speed which brings me back to the whole reason for making this video is do you need fast Ram speed when building a computer the answer is no but J what if I want to do videos what if I want to make YouTube what if I want a live stream then do I need faster Ram well I'm glad you asked let's go ahead and take a look at the effects on how Ram speed affected render time in Sony Vegas I rendered this one-minute sample clip on all three RAM speeds and as you can see at twelve hundred and seventy nine megahertz it took a 1 minute and 12 seconds that very same clip took exactly one minute and eight seconds when rendered at 1600 megahertz and once again at 1920 megahertz we dropped it down to one minute and six seconds so that's six seconds faster rendering speed on a one-minute video by simply raising the clock speed from 1279 to 1920 on the RAM so how exactly does that kind of performance difference equate to a benchmarking number well I'm glad you asked because I put this processor at the three different Ram speeds through the wringer with Cinebench 11.5 and as you can see we got an eight point three and nineteen twenty and eight point two seven and sixteen hundred and an eight point two six at twelve seventy nine so the difference is definitely very minimal so Ram speed is definitely not as important as overall CPU and power so how does it compare when it's run at stock speeds it fell on its face at a six point nine zero Cinebench score so as you can see processor speed and overall power is much more important than Ram speed when it comes to the general-purpose usage of your computer doesn't matter if you're rendering gaming streaming youtubing pornography it doesn't matter Ram speed is okay but your processor definitely comes in at number one and if you miss the video where I talked about how much vram your video cards really using click the video on the left you'll be taken to that video and if you're a new subscriber I want to sincerely thank you for joining my channel and joining this beautiful experience at YouTube is turning out to be and if you just happen to stumble across this video where you just found my channel for the first time hit that subscribe button you're gonna like what you have to see I've got all sorts of videos talking about PC gaming and general technology and I'm bringing back my my original technology news show called tech addiction on May 24th I'll see you then and as always I will see you when I see you in my next video you