A case for 4 stciks and 32GB of ram.

I have recently been upgrading my gaming PC over the past few months via the second hand and new route and selling on my retired kit.

Most cost effective this is.

Updated PC to :Ryzen 5600x. 32GB x4 ddr4 3200, Radeon 6600x and a 2TB ssd.

The big argument is you only need 2 sticks and 16Gb of ram for gaming.

But word is the 5600x memory controller is different and no one knows why and so typically 2 sticks is a safe bet with AMD but in this case with the 5600x 4 sticks always adds to performance in games and the word is between 6 and 12% so long as you are not GPU limited.

When I fitted the 5600X I saw ram usage go up a little? and one game would not run properly on account of running out of ram Battlefield 5.

So with the 2 point above I went for anther 16Gb of ram ( identical to existing, compatibility ). It did give me the willies when I fist fired it up, it took an age for the mobo to configure the new ram set up. But once it got there changing bios setting to custom went like normal.

So in games you get spike lows which you can often see (stutter) but it does not show in the fps read and these will always show in a good game benchmark.

This no longer happens.

Deus Ex M,K,D bench mark lowest was 57fps and is now a constant 60 with not a wiff of stutter.

And as for Battlefield 5 it chugs along buttery smooth.

As you can see BF has helped its self to another 4GB and this is at 1080p and most other games help them selves to another 2GB but often remain well under 16GB total.

For £40 the extra 16GB of ram seems to be a wining trick and has optimized my PC into a quality competent system.