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With slow DDR5 RAM prices going through the roof, and the expensive stuff through the stratosphere, we investigate if RAM speed matters in 2026
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how informative and interesting. engagement, etc.
Is only getting worse Chiba just cut off most of the world's rare earths
very nice to hear. But in my country even cl30 2x16gb is still twice the price that it was a year ago. and 2x32gb is 4 times the price.
Hi Linus, please can you do a video on windows power modes? would be interesting to compare the realistic performance gains of High Performance, Ultimate Performance compared to Balanced and Power Saver but also the energy cost per frame to see if those extra frames and performance is worth the hit on your energy bill at the end of the month
What about DDR4/DDR5 adapters?
What about with a more budget CPU like 9600?
Tell me about it with the requisition requests – prices of laptops is insane.
Man.. i wanted to get 48 gigs of DDR3 for cheap.. now it's $200.
I got a 8400 MT/s kit at discount for 160$ last year… The value on it actually outpaced my crypto portfolio 😀
Another AMD win
Unsubscribing you dude I just saw one of your bots in nilered channel Abgs tryna sell LLT screwdriver kit Ew Linus
All these "tech tubers" using X3D cpus, comparing ram speeds… X3D cpus are less prone to a performance decrease because of the 96Mb super fast L3 SRAM. Do the same tests with a non X3D am4/am5 cpu and it it would look way different
Here i am, still rocking my 5950x with 64gb ddr4 hahaha Linus with bubble looked like Ron Perlman btw haha
It doesn't matter. We use swap as ram now
2 sec is not a meaningful difference
X3D and high bandwidth low latency RAM is only essential for the 500 people that still play Escape from Tarkov
2 is always better but 1 works too 00:53
im going to have to indulge in this kidney idea i need that mystical ram
Is it me or is the latency make a bigger difference than frequency?
Nice one. Can't wait for DDR4/DDR3 performance differences too.
Starting with Intel so people watch the whole video hahah
One suggestion – people who buy budget cpus like 7500f, 7600x or 9600x will be more concern about the ddr5 ram prices rather than people going for 9800x3d, 9950X or 9950X3D. Can we expect testing on those cpus?
Telling us to stop wasting money on Fancy ram after telling us to buy Fancy ram is crazy 😂
Hey LTT – can you perform the tests but with gpus with 8gb vram with the same set of games. I think thats very important given most gamers are in the 6gb-12gbvram range, and i dont think many realise most modern titles eat that up at 1440p+. Ironically memory speed matters more here than it would for someone like a 5090 user. Even on a X3d platform.
I just got a laptop with 32gb of ddr4 4267mhz, an intel i7-1185g7 cpu and iris xe graphics for 275$🤑