Battlefield 4 Loves High Speed Memory

You can gain up to 2 FPS for $200 extra! Disclaimer: Performance gains not guaranteed!

That's what this sounds like to me, it's probably not really that exciting :p
 
Calling BS on that whole article. Hopefully somebody somewhere who does not happen to sell ultra expensive memory will do proper testing.
Even if it was true I would not buy Corsair memory at $80-$100+ more than similar Patriot or g.skill memory. Almost as dumb as adding any active cooling to memory sticks.
 
Technikal said:
Calling BS on that whole article. Hopefully somebody somewhere who does not happen to sell ultra expensive memory will do proper testing.
Even if it was true I would not buy Corsair memory at $80-$100+ more than similar Patriot or g.skill memory. Almost as dumb as adding any active cooling to memory sticks.
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I watercooled my memory, don't tell me that was useless. Those chips can get hot! :eek:...:D:p
 
Brent_Justice said:
Added to the ever growing list :p

Interesting possibilities

Amazing how BF series has become a benchmark of gaming, I remember back to the BF 1942 days and such, amazing how this game has evolved to its status
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Yes, it's gone from being a great game with bad graphics, to a bad game with great graphics. It's been downhill since Bad company came out. Last great battlefield game was BF2. I hope BF4 is more like bf2 and less like bf3...

(disclaimer: this is my opinion.)
 
elite.mafia said:
Yes, it's gone from being a great game with bad graphics, to a bad game with great graphics. It's been downhill since Bad company came out. Last great battlefield game was BF2. I hope BF4 is more like bf2 and less like bf3...

(disclaimer: this is my opinion.)
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BF4 plays almost exactly like BF3, so there goes that...No Battlefield will ever be as good as BF2 again ;/
 
The only verifiable part of this is that Corsair Dominator Platinum memory is excellent memory - ALL of the 16GB (2x8GB) 1866 kits I have handled(around 30-40) can do @ least 2133 @ 9/9/9/27 and 1t, 1.625 voltage, though I usually set them @ 10/10/10/27 2t when doing 24hr stress test. Just thought I'd share this, I'm not a huge fan of the bling lights on the Dom/Plat though they do look cool in a case with a Corsair w/cooler and the actual ram is first rate...gl all:)
 
elite.mafia said:
Yes, it's gone from being a great game with bad graphics, to a bad game with great graphics. It's been downhill since Bad company came out. Last great battlefield game was BF2. I hope BF4 is more like bf2 and less like bf3...

(disclaimer: this is my opinion.)
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Battlefield plays as well as your squad does IMO. Also the server can make a difference.
What's people's major problem with bf3 anyway?
Frag rounds for the USAS were shit for a while though other than that I don't really see any inherent problems with it.
 
Godmachine said:
Woah , an opinion on the internet? Well I never!
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Sorry just busting balls :) You'll have to forgive me, I had just come from spending 10 min on Battlelog forums where its nothing but "This game suxx" and "I'm not buying this" and "boycott BF4" threads, and these people don't apparently realize they have "BF4 Preorder" next to their username giving away that they've already preordered.

There are legitimate criticisms but in some cases I get the feeling the most vocal complainers will be the ones hitting refresh on the preload option and taking the day off work and being the first into the game crying their eyes out about how good/bad/beautiful/terrible it is.
 
For so many years we've heard "grrr modern software doesn't really tax my hardware!"

Now we get some software that actually pushes things and......
 
Imitation said:
Guess this means i might have to see how far this corsair ram can be pushed! I should probly go read how to properly overclock memory on this platform.
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Mine does 30GB/s in sandra...might be the only good thing about my sys.
 
Patently ludicrous results... 22% increase in average framerate?
Either something is horridly broken, or these are fabricated plain and simple.

Please Mr Skavlos check yourself before you wreck yourself.
 
daglesj said:
For so many years we've heard "grrr modern software doesn't really tax my hardware!"

Now we get some software that actually pushes things and......
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Well that was predictable, now everyone is a high level programer that will say games are not optimized... Lolllllllllll global illumination and real real time lighting cost power.. It's not free
 
I've never had a stick of Corsair memory that overclocked worth a shit.

They bin their memory, sell the faster chips at higher prices, and the slower chips at lower prices. In my experience you get the speed you pay for but you don't get much headroom, and I've had better luck with manufacturers like G.Skill.

In fact, Corsair and OCZ memory are on my suck list.
 
After the beta ended i went back to the first maps of bf3, my god it look horrible, faded, Textures are crappy, it's lifeless no wonder it runs at 100fps... I know the map did got better as time gone but i wanted to compare release maps vs release map
 
I actually get to use my high speed CORSAIR dominator platinum's on something other than benching :D
 
Lith1um said:
I've never had a stick of Corsair memory that overclocked worth a shit.

They bin their memory, sell the faster chips at higher prices, and the slower chips at lower prices. In my experience you get the speed you pay for but you don't get much headroom, and I've had better luck with manufacturers like G.Skill.

In fact, Corsair and OCZ memory are on my suck list.
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Yup also had a few sticks that I couldn't up no matter how much I loosened the timings and screwed with the voltage 100% stuck at rated speed. Doesn't give you much confidence either, I mean that it juuuust hits the rated speed and as soon as you go over it BLAM no cigar....
 
Corsair's riding on a wave of hype and being a big name, that's what I told myself after having three RMA in a row of their RAM until I got a Kingston stick which turned out to work flawlessly.

This is another step on that wave. Be wary.
 
cyclone3d said:
Even back in the days of BF2, it benefited a lot from faster RAM.

One of my friends was running his DDR3-1600 at 1066 on his LGA 1366 system.

BF2 was a stuttering mess. Bumped it up to 1600 and all the stuttering went away.

And people think that games don't benefit from faster RAM.

Applications that use large amounts of RAM will always benefit from faster RAM as long as the rest of the system can keep up with it.
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On BF2? Are you sure there wasn't something else wrong with the system? I played BF2 on my rinkydinky old AMD 4400+ X2 with 2GB of DDR800 and never had any issues with it.
 
Steve said:
The folks at Corsair are pretty damn excited about Battlefield 4. Why are they so excited you might ask?
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I will take a stab. Because they are hoping that the PC community gets excited enough to buy some shit they dont need over a console port.
 
All of my setups are still running 1066 or 1333, there really has never been a reason to overclock it or get fast ram since Intel released the K series.

Guess that might finally be changing.
 
Every pair of Corsair Memory myself and several friends bought since 1995 failed in some way at some point. 5x pairs out of at least 9x pairs bought. They did replace them all though RMA. Still.. seriously wtf..

Last time I saw that cheap Vengeance with the tall black funny looking useless heat spreaders (like all head spreaders) barely attached to 3-4 of the chips by the sticky tape I told myself that's it, Corsair is on my avoid list. Lousy failed headphones sealed the deal.

But maybe this memory makes BF fun? :) I'd rather DICE go back to WW2 because all this modern stuff is boring. I played BF3 for maybe 5 hours at launch..never touched it again.
I want to like it..
Funny I really enjoyed Bad Company 2 multilayer
 
Looks like Corsair makes nice cases...I got angry with them after I bought some RAM and found out the warranty filing date was within a few days of purchase. No one does that. Assholes.

Anyway, just for grins I went from running stock speed on my RAM (1333) to the XMP profile (19xx). I can't tell the difference. I think Hitman 4 is actually one FPS slower. Probably timings?
 
DPI said:
Sorry just busting balls :) You'll have to forgive me, I had just come from spending 10 min on Battlelog forums where its nothing but "This game suxx" and "I'm not buying this" and "boycott BF4" threads, and these people don't apparently realize they have "BF4 Preorder" next to their username giving away that they've already preordered.

There are legitimate criticisms but in some cases I get the feeling the most vocal complainers will be the ones hitting refresh on the preload option and taking the day off work and being the first into the game crying their eyes out about how good/bad/beautiful/terrible it is.
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Agreed. Remember that Modern Warfare 2 Steam screenshot that showed all the people "Boycotting" MW2 playing the game? Then there are the ones who never liked BF series and never will buy it, but choose to argue their opinion of why it sucks to bring down any thread that discusses the topic. When you are in the 4th thread of some product/company you don't like spouting shit, that's a problem and maybe that person should go out and get some pussy or something.


BF2 was an amazing game when it wasn't a buggy piece of shit. It's amazing how people have this rose colored memory of their BF2 days. Now BF2 did benefit from faster memory and I remember the threads about it back then. This however might be a crock of shit.

I am not upgrading my 1600mhz ram, but nice try there Corsair.
 
next-Jin said:
All of my setups are still running 1066 or 1333, there really has never been a reason to overclock it or get fast ram since Intel released the K series.

Guess that might finally be changing.
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I would not throw down any cash until many, many more tests are done. And just for one game?

I wonder how many noobs have already spent $$$ just by reading that article...
 
So are game benchmarks now going to have detailed reports on CPU, GPU, RAM, and Storage performance? Jeez...

For those that have tried both, how do BF4's visuals in motion compare to something like Crysis 3? Because I don't remember that game being so memory intensive.
 
teh_chem said:
On BF2? Are you sure there wasn't something else wrong with the system? I played BF2 on my rinkydinky old AMD 4400+ X2 with 2GB of DDR800 and never had any issues with it.
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What resolution and other graphics settings were you running at?

Were you playing multi-player of single player? Multi-player seems to tax the system quite a bit more than single player.

And yeah, I am pretty sure that there wasn't something else wrong with the system.

It may not have to do with throughput as much as it does with Latency. Running DDR3 at 1066 gives you pretty crappy latency unless you manually tighten up the timings.
 
Technikal said:
I would not throw down any cash until many, many more tests are done. And just for one game?

I wonder how many noobs have already spent $$$ just by reading that article...
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I'm not saying I'll upgrade, I was saying the reason to actually own faster memory might be changing. There has been no need to for a long time.
 
Flopper said:
4.4 is about what you get with Haswell OC wise.
80% or around that dont do more especially on 4770k.
100mhz wont do much difference.
BF3 and BF4 are highly cpu bound games due to the workload that engine puts out.
I am cpu bound in my set up with a 7970 due to I want max fps and my 4.7ghz 4670k isnt up for it.
Mantle will be a good thing for Bf4.
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So you're saying I got really lucky? My 4770K is running at 4.6GHz 1.3v HT ON on a H220 and max temps under stress is 75c though i never see over 65c under nything I normally do.

To get it there all I did was set the multi to 46 and leave everything else auto, it couldn't have been easier.
 
I actually believe the memory bandwidth will help.

BF4 actually seems to benefit from more processing power. If faster ram -> more useful CPU cycles, then it would follow that we would see a benefit from using faster ram.

Again, dependant on BF4 being cpu intense....
 
MrLonghair said:
Corsair's riding on a wave of hype and being a big name, that's what I told myself after having three RMA in a row of their RAM until I got a Kingston stick which turned out to work flawlessly.

This is another step on that wave. Be wary.
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Their QC since the original dominator era has gone down-hill, no doubt about it.
 
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