A friend of mine recently "threw" himself at the new and cheap, just like everybody else, and got himself an entirely AMD computer (desktop PC, not a laptop) with 16GB DDR4 RAM and RX 6600 XT. Which RAM, if I'm not mistaken, runs at 2400 MHz. This new PC of his is supposed to be at least twice faster than mine and yet we keep seeing instances where my older PC runs and loads things faster.
One such instance is Euro Truck Simulator 2 which has this map mod called ProMods. That map is huge (5-6 GB compressed, if I recall correctly) and requires fast RAM, if you don't wanna wait an eternity for it to be loaded. All logic dictates that his brand new computer should be a lot faster at loading this map mod and yet my computer (see my signature) does that about 3 minutes faster than his. Sure, he's using Crapindows 10 which we all know is slow as hell, but that can't be the only reason.
ETS2 isn't the only game that loads faster on my end than his. We recently bought on Steam a new survival game in order to play it together. The first time we played it, his old computer loaded it slowly and I figured the reason for that must have been his old hardware. But the performance of this game didn't change a bit with his brand new computer.
There are a few other games examples with the same performance differences on my computer and his.
On some telegram groups and discord servers people keep telling me I should upgrade my computer but I see no reason or logic to do that. I can play any latest game that I want (not long ago I played (on Linux) the latest "Hitman III") and I can play it at its maximum settings. But that's beside the point, I'm just mentioning why I'm still using this old hardware (except for the video card whose model was released in 2020).
So, if my computer is older and my RAM is 1600 MHz (that I know for sure bc I put this computer together personally part by part), altough being 32 GB, instead of 16, whereas his is 50% faster regarding frequency, then what's the point of having a faster RAM when the old DDR3 RAM works and does things a lot faster than DDR4?
One such instance is Euro Truck Simulator 2 which has this map mod called ProMods. That map is huge (5-6 GB compressed, if I recall correctly) and requires fast RAM, if you don't wanna wait an eternity for it to be loaded. All logic dictates that his brand new computer should be a lot faster at loading this map mod and yet my computer (see my signature) does that about 3 minutes faster than his. Sure, he's using Crapindows 10 which we all know is slow as hell, but that can't be the only reason.
ETS2 isn't the only game that loads faster on my end than his. We recently bought on Steam a new survival game in order to play it together. The first time we played it, his old computer loaded it slowly and I figured the reason for that must have been his old hardware. But the performance of this game didn't change a bit with his brand new computer.
There are a few other games examples with the same performance differences on my computer and his.
On some telegram groups and discord servers people keep telling me I should upgrade my computer but I see no reason or logic to do that. I can play any latest game that I want (not long ago I played (on Linux) the latest "Hitman III") and I can play it at its maximum settings. But that's beside the point, I'm just mentioning why I'm still using this old hardware (except for the video card whose model was released in 2020).
So, if my computer is older and my RAM is 1600 MHz (that I know for sure bc I put this computer together personally part by part), altough being 32 GB, instead of 16, whereas his is 50% faster regarding frequency, then what's the point of having a faster RAM when the old DDR3 RAM works and does things a lot faster than DDR4?