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caffeinade on 10 August 2017
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JEMC said:
caffeinade said:

I never said it was fantastic.
You can get a OEM key pretty cheaply (under $50) and yeah a SSD would help greatly.
Oh, and the RAM should be fine, it should only be a 10 - 20% max decrease from a 3000MHz kit.

Buying an OEM PC and then having to buy an OEM key doesn't look right, at least to me.

I like how you say "only" 10-20% decrease, as if it was something negligible. That difference also translates to game performance, and a 10% difference can be a huge one, even more than what sepparates two different GPUs in some games.

Here's a couple of tests with different DDR4 modules:

http://www.legitreviews.com/ddr4-memory-scaling-amd-am4-platform-best-memory-kit-amd-ryzen-cpus_192259

testing with an X370 board, a Ryzen 7 1700 and a GTX 1080

There are 7fps between a 2400 and a 3000 kit. Not noticeable with those already huge numbers, but...

 

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-ryzen-7-memory-and-tweaking-analysis-review,1.html

Here we have 5, 4 (this time it's with high settings, not medium) and 8 fps between the 2400 and the 2933 kits. That's almost the difference between a 470 and a 480, for example!

So, I have to disagree with you. It does matter.

Yeah, it matters.
Apparently less that I guessed (though I knew I was overshooting it a bit with 10 - 20%).
It matters a fair bit but lets put it this way: is he going to over clock the system?
Unlikely the difference between 2400MHz and 3000MHz RAM is about $20 for that same amount of dollars he could get a R5 1600x and have a system that makes up the difference.

Now do I recommend that he get faster RAM if he can afford it, yeah; but if we are cutting corners, and I don't know the kind of budget I am working with I feel it is an adequate trade off.
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