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in my latest upload featuring both the 6600 K and the 4690k to the video which you can check out right here a few of you claimed that it was somehow unfair of me to downgrade my ddr4 frequency to 2133 megahertz to be in line with my ddr3 frequency also at 21 33 megahertz you claimed that an increase in ddr4 frequency would have yielded much better results for the 6600 K and therefore gaming benchmarks and CPU synthetic benchmarks would have been you know much better so we would have yielded higher margins in performance on both the gaming and CPU synthetic sides of our test so in this video we're going to put that theory to the test does an increase in ddr4 frequency actually yield an increase in both gaming and CPU synthetic tests the test bench for this video will of course consist of the 6600 K and MSI z170a gaming pro motherboard and 2 4 gigabyte sticks of a mixer blitz ddr4 factory clocked to 2800 megahertz the only variable that will change during the course of this video will be the frequency at which our ddr4 operates so originally we ran all of our tests at 2800 megahertz and then I went into the BIOS and manually down clock the RAM frequency to 20 133 megahertz the process isn't very difficult all depend on your motherboard click a button that'll send you into your BIOS go into the overclock Tweaker it's what is usually called and then manually set your ddr4 frequency to whatever its stock frequency is don't try to overclock it because you're gonna get into some trouble you're gonna really tweak with your voltages your Layton sees to get an overclock with Ram I don't recommend doing that but you can very easily under clock RAM which is what I did in this particular clip right here so with that the way we ran four separate tests two of them being CPU synthetic and two of them being games let's go ahead and see what the results were you okay so first up in the case of Cinebench there really isn't much of a difference at all to be seen however Cinebench mostly depends on the number of cores you have and the number of threads you have and the frequency at which your CPU operates not necessarily frequency at which your RAM operates so I can't really say that there's any surprise here however in the case of Geekbench 3 there was a noticeable difference between both the multi-core and single core scores our twenty eight hundred megahertz platform received about 500 extra points and the multi-core side of things and about 200 extra points in the single core side of thing so you could argue that in tasks where Ram is more heavily involved obviously you will start to see those added benefits the first of our two games was dirt rally and I would generally regard dirt rally as more of a GPU intensive game than anything else and that definitely shows in these graphs you really can't discern much of a difference at all between our higher clock Ram platform and our lower clock ram in fact really only about a 1 FPS difference on the averages would be completely unnoticeable during gameplay so a lot of the GPU intensive games really won't benefit from this faster Ram however things change in the case of GTA 5 pretty much as always ha just kidding really if things don't change it all for GTA 5 even though GTA 5 is much more CPU intensive in fact we really only see once again about a 1 FPS increase on the average side of things and about a 2 to 3 FPS increase on the maxes and mins so just because GT 5 is a very CPU intensive game this does not mean that an increase in ddr4 frequency is going to yield noticeable frame per second increases they're just not directly correlated there are many many other factors that play a role here in fact most of these variables are almost solely dependent on your graphics card so whatever your vram frequency is and whatever your GPU frequencies are can dramatically affect the frame rates that you see in most of your games so let's clear things up for a second when I decided to run identical frequencies for both my ddr3 and ddr4 platforms I'm really not changing much at all in fact in the case of my FX 6300 verse I 3 6100 video of which you can check out right here I received a ton of backlash from people who said that whoa whoa whoa you use different frequencies for ddr3 and ddr4 that is not fair at all there really is going too much of a difference if I decided to run ddr3 at 21 33 megahertz these tests alone prove that so that's the myth I want to get off of this channel ddr4 and ddr3 frequencies don't make much of a difference at all especially when you decide the game or even when you're just doing simple tasks on your computer I personally by faster Ram only because I've video at it all the time and that is a place in which you will notice the difference between ddr3 and ddr4 and the differences in frequencies but other than that if all you is game or just surf the web YouTube whatever all of those tasks will not benefit from faster RAM at least in any noticeable way unless you decide to nitpick and say oh well one FPS is an increase that's justifiable for me maybe it is for you I'm not really going to argue that but the results are here for you all to see and I would like to hear what you have to say about these results in the comments below keep in mind that I did not change any caste Layton sees and we use the gtx 960 and all these tests I know I should have said that upfront but that is that's the state of these benchmarks here so let me know in the comments below what you think be sure to LIKE the video if you liked it dislike it if you dislike it for whatever reason if you really liked it however be sure to subscribe if you haven't already we post videos like this all the time this is science studio thanks for learning with us