What Is RAM and What Does It Do? [Guide]

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Do you ever wonder what RAM is and what function it serves on your computer?
This video will take a closer look at RAM and explain what it is. We'll be discussing types of RAM, how much RAM you need for your purposes, how fast your RAM should be, RAM channel configurations, and more.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:44 What is RAM?
1:54 Types of RAM
4:34 How Much RAM Do You Need?
5:34 How Fast Should Your RAM Be?
6:54 Channel Configurations
8:40 Conclusion

[@Unknown-bw2co]

This is way to confusing for my stupid brain but I have a year or two before I can afford this project so I'll come back later :) Edit February-9th-2024: I never did get to build my pc yet and I probably won't be able to for a while. But funnily enough I work with RAM on planes now and I fully understand it. I'm gonna start to work on getting my bachelor's in electrical engineering within the next year

[@gavindwightwirohusodo8277]

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[@justuslee7014]

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[@gavindwightwirohusodo8277]

@@justuslee7014 i'll be back again

[@justuslee7014]

@@gavindwightwirohusodo8277 not if I will first

[@gavindwightwirohusodo8277]

@@justuslee7014 ok

[@justuslee7014]

I was genuinely interested in learning how this works, and I zoned out like I was in the middle of class

[@gprime70]

This was very insightful for a not so tech-savvy guy. Dropped a like 💯

[@jeffw825]

Excellent video -well done. Thank you!

[@rowmin6433]

Yes! Thanks for making these videos.

[@stephengoh5456]

Awesome! Love it. Thank you.

[@vinceavila7795]

I love this channel. Very informative.

[@owaisshaikh2144]

Excellent video. Thank you so much. ❤❤❤

[@Tha-vc9ij]

New subcriber coming through I decide to subcribe to your channel because your videos are really interesting and it helps me grow about Gaming stuff

[@lakshthedog]

im making my own gaming pc and this video helped alot thank you

[@venialivelizard]

Jay two cents made a good video about single channel vs dual channel. And dual channel is quite noticeablely better in gaming. Two 8gb sticks using dual channel out preformed one 16gb stick both having the same speed.

[@infinity_name]

thanks a lot of this

[@Jam_Mari]

Let’s see if I can understand this better, It’s like playing Minecraft, CPU - The Player SSD/HD - The Chest RAM - Your inventory Say if your transferring items from one place to a another right? If the (player) moves slow, it’ll take while to finish the job but, if the (player) moves fast, it’ll get the job done quicker. The (player) puts items into his (inventory) from the (chest) right? If there’s barely space in the (inventory), it will hinder your performance. Opposite way around if your trying to items into your (chest) it can be cramped. You would have a perfect unison with a good cpu, and a good amount of RAM and SSD/HD.

[@leorafisantiago2755]

Exelent!!, good video!!

[@SJ_LSF_9]

great breakdown

[@hypebeatss]

Most applications are optimized to utilize a cap of 4gb of Ram considering 4-8gb computers are standard. We need software developers AND computer companies to start allow us to control how our Ram is being used for specific tasks and applications 😅

[@Darkmangaming32]

try to make it your self

[@MehMeh-mj5hn]

You can, been able to for a while now, for windows it isn't as clear cut, its done by setting priorities though task manager. but Linux its done though commands. You might have to edit the program themselves, like Minecraft.

[@hooman3576]

After getting to know what is ipc gain, panels, ram dies, best rams etc *THIS WAS THE ONLY THING LEFT*

[@SCS2158]

need to learn about RAM dies and best RAMs mind sharing the link of the video?

[@hooman3576]

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[@SCS2158]

@@hooman3576 Ofc from discord bro

[@hooman3576]

@@SCS2158 discord pe rams ke baare mai smexy se puch Sab bata dega

[@SCS2158]

@@hooman3576 ok bro thanks

[@idanphilosoph2066]

damn this video is so well made its crazy.

[@timustim7418]

Sorry about including this comment in this video but since it is a recent video. It would be great if could make a video on budgetwise cpu and gpu pair... I hope you give some though on it

[@zaclaplant3001]

"DDR4 is the latest and the top of the market" 3 years later and we're at DDR6 like DDR came out like, years ago

[@zaclaplant3001]

"16 gigs is enough to run all the latest games" Boy, how the time flies. If you ever watched friends, Chandler brags about his gaming laptop that has 15 megs of ram, which is quite worth watching

[@sggsquadpresents]

single channel and dual channel is like running SSDs in raid 0 because if you have 2 SSDS or more you can combine their controllers (chips) to make the SSD faster and the same goes for ram because if you have 2 or 4 or 8 individual sticks of ram the computer will run it in a some sort of RAID layout which will increase it's total bandwidth. Lets say 1 stick of ram gets 20GB bandwidth. If you get 2 sticks you would get double which would be 40GB bandwidth.

[@Timur4990]

even Linus won't teach us such things;)

[@sivvles]

Been waiting for a another video hype up !!!!

[@sivvles]

Like if facts

[@ethnicpc8342]

Exactly

[@juliansands3914]

V

[@formskillsfn2151]

Couldn’t agree more

[@formskillsfn2151]

@@ethnicpc8342 I feel u

[@jahilbanda1540]

thanks :D

[@slimjim132]

something good to know is cass latency aka CL. TLDR lower the better so an example will be CL-14 CL-16 CL-18. The bigger number is usually slower but sometimes cheaper (not ALL the time) and the lower numbers are usually faster but more expensive. If anything you want to see CL-14/16 because those are the configurations best for gaming and in general

[@K1DCAT]

4:48 this is true but if you are for example playing modded games the amount of ram you need gets higher

[@quietdominator666]

What is Ram? Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more.

[@JohnDoe-101]

Thanks.

[@halilkazik7816]

Thank you.

[@jjbullock8436]

The stock imagery makes it 10x better

[@ShinGodzilla1011]

So I’m guessing getting 64 gbs of ram was overkill

[@hunterbawlz]

Same

[@robinchwan]

i mean, if you play early access games, i've seen a ridiculous minimum 32gb ram so not as overkill as you'd think.

[@CMAKdaSILLY]

Oof

[@kingbotmathew7925]

Hey think about it you won’t need to upgrade for a few years

[@anasbouallagui9845]

Future proof

[@Darklegend51520]

Here to say that ddr5 is here btw thanks for the information

[@AB-dx1co]

What about single and dual rank memory

[@williamaraujo779]

many reasons,,,,,,I Subbed.

[@Thiloyeah]

This Video is really great. It explaines a lot very easy while its pretty honest. However there is one great flaw. And this is the relation between frequencies and timings. A question ahead. So what CL should a RAM have by 3600 MHZ ?

[@Supertoddy96]

Lower cl needs higher mhz for higher quality, mhz doesn't make much of a difference compared to your latency which should be as low as possible then your mhz matching what your motherboard needs, higher being better

[@Thiloyeah]

@@Supertoddy96 Thanks, I also heard vice versa. So it's a little more important to have a higher frequency than latency. But this may just be the case for high performance games or productivity tasks and in consideration of overclocking.

[@Supertoddy96]

@@Thiloyeah ryzen typically needs higher frequency, latency means how many clock cycles it can do per second, frequency is more or less usually meaningless since it depends on your cpu/game youre playing but ryzen gen3 I believe is average/max at 3600 mhz

[@Supertoddy96]

@@Thiloyeah games aren't usually a factor for ram compared to high demand video editing or processing stuff etc that most people will never benefit from since ram can at most ever add about 3 fps for any scenerio which means nothing and even less if youre over your monitors hz already

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

thanks

[@kostasmous5931]

hey guys!! i have bought a single stick ram ( crucial ballistix 16gb 3600Mhz (BL16G36C16U4B) ) and i wanna ask if anyone knows if i buy the EXACT same single stick ram model will i be able to dual channel them?????? my mobo is B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI

[@-Scrapper-]

This vid is well done

[@Cool_Gamer-iz2fw]

i take gaming pc it was very helpful

[@justincider8892]

7:00 why did you use footage that highlights the CPU when you're talking about RAM?

[@undercoft7756]

So no one talking about how 4:38 is literally Minecraft Steve huh

[@naveen...6220]

my phone has lpddr5 ram does, it got something good and extraordinary?

[@ivanohlebec8352]

I like this video, so relaxing and fun

[@marmanden]

me too

[@Droon_Jadhav]

pls make a video on playing a game on 120 fps or too many fps on a 60 hz monitor

[@GameGuruGenius27]

Epilepsy warning @2:26 like what in the hell bro you tryna have a brother fall out in this bih

[@dylanisabell3960]

At 1:40 and I’m already flabbergasted

[@deathlysilence2712]

"since then we've gone through several iterations of ddr" Me: wow I didn't know there were that many dance dance revolution games

[@nutellapringles]

a flawless effort... and her voice 😍

[@joebastianich3410]

Calm down oguz til is izmir

[@vghligjlyxn0ihnuaxblciaxmj196]

What about say 2 16gb sticks?

[@realbloxgamingxd53]

So is it better to be 2x16GB OR 4x8GB Are those 4 channels really faster than 2 16GB channels?

[@jaderose2886]

i m still waiting for wht is graphics card

[@user-ej1eh1cg6d]

Is it just me or is there an extra "d" when she says ddr? Sorry I'm new into this in depth stuff so I'm kinda confused.

[@averagecommenter4623]

So if I want to open more than one tab I should have more ram.

[@burntt999]

oh wheres the : "prime day is ending what ram should i buy and i already know the basics" ... video

[@jasonzhang3540]

Megatransfers not MHz, its double data rate so the clock speed is half

[@reaperzx5545]

i think i went overboard lol i bought 64gb at 3600 lol after i heard 16 was enough i was like oh

[@EmceeCommon55]

I've never in my life seen a video with more generic, stock B roll than this.

[@HoundDogMech]

You glossed over work tations but what RAM configuration CPU combo works best for Graphics intensive things like Video Editing?

[@TBTornado]

I use an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X with 32GB (2x16) of 3200MHz DDR4 memory and it works perfectly fine. 16GB was very slow for me before I upgraded.

[@WhiteBoyEvil]

i got cyber power pc c series that is install 40 GB of ram.

[@F1zzyKetchup]

Yea this is what I was wondering. I want to know if a 3060, i5 13400f with 32gb is a good idea

[@jewelsprsnl]

hey i really need help with this question someone please let me know. i was looking online for RAM cause i'm in the making of buying my first pc and i wanted to know if the RAM says AMD only and not AMD and intel will the ram still be compatible with my intel build? or do i need it to say intel for it to be compatible? it's pretty confusing to me since i don't have much knowledge on RAM.

[@thegamingdoge6435]

If it says AMD only, it’s pretty self explanatory.

[@jewelsprsnl]

@@thegamingdoge6435 u just wanted to be that dude lol haha dont worry someone already helped me a few weeks back. thx for tryna help tho

[@AnuragKrishna427]

You didn't tell about cl 19,16 udimm sodimm etc

[@ramenbud6322]

does ram give you more graphics

[@pacresfrancis1565]

Kinda hyped for DDR5 this year :D since Intel's 12gen will be compatible with it

[@pacresfrancis1565]

@Aum Patel , 12. they will be mass producing the 12 gen on the 2nd quarter of this year. That's what I heard from youtubers. And yes, two generations on the same year!

[@chocoblocko9]

@@pacresfrancis1565 intel is not worth it

[@pacresfrancis1565]

@@chocoblocko9 , alder lake might make intel top tier once more tho. Also not buying any time soon, so no worries on which company to choose yet:)

[@ryanp.cummins1614]

Same

[@chi_charms0850]

Can i use a 4 gb ram stick and a 16 gb ram stick in my laptop?

[@T1GER99]

Nop one or the other

[@ahmaditani8099]

i have little issue about the volume or how much ram do we need, you said that if our work it all about social media and browsing you need from 6gb - 8gb why because from my experience how much ram depends on the os that its installed on the pc example if we have windows 7 you need 4gb and its perfect, if you have windows 10 and the latest version you need minimum 4gb dedicated for the os that mean you need to install another 2gb or 4gb to able browsing and it also depends on how much tabs you are opening if one or two tabs per browsing its enough to have 6gb if more minimum 8gb, like what i said in my information that how much ram we need.

[@stephonriley7491]

Wow wow

[@TheElectroStud]

How to choose the right power supply?

[@TheElectroStud]

@@xavdidit thanks

[@nian60]

You can go to PCpartpicker and put in all the components of your build into their System Builder. It will then calculate what the estimated wattage will be.

[@stephenalexander5147]

DDR5 is the latest and dominant type of RAM this was made 3 years ago and DDR5 came out in 2020. So DDR 4 being the latest and dominant type of RAM is false.

[@Shibainu1250]

My stoopid brain finally learned smth

[@user-kg5ut5fc1f]

-------+++++++ THANK YOU

[@01DaveFer]

Damn I have 32GB of RAM. I over exaggerated on mine.

[@fahadal-asmari6893]

It's the blue screen hunter.

[@Martini9111]

DDR4 wasn't released in 2011 tho...it was released in 2014

[@mariobarbara2893]

Yeah this was great but the video should be called “how to buy ram”, because what it is isn’t really that much explained in this video

[@MR071061308]

👍

[@SPACEHARICE]

Got a pre build I9 4090 64gb ram But theres 2 more slots so imma full it up will send 100 gift steam card usd to someone who helps me set the software side of things

[@hellishdemon5958]

Me who tries so hard to game with 4 gb ram is funny and annoying even trying to load chrome is abnoxious

[@alexp5604]

2024 I build a monster of a pc

[@moonup8560]

MEGAHERTZ ??????

[@sggsquadpresents]

And no 4GB is extremely low in 2022 and 8GB is not great too but I guess you could use that. But to be honest better save up to get a truly good PC rather than getting 5 crappy PCs a year because they keep breaking due to things like AIO leaks etc.

[@arknight590]

Jai Shree Ram 🙏🙏

[@Equilibrium_Nick]

TF MY LAPTOP GOES 2 Hz AAA

[@kaveh_1869]

With 8gb of ram can you run discord on the background

[@timenoen]

Yeah

[@VAAT.O]

Loved your video - great content - but some of the stock footage is like MEGA CRINGE lol

[@uknownunknown5279]

I just wanna play rust

[@WhiteBoyEvil]

i got 40 GB of ram on my pc

[@ChoppedAndScrewedMusic]

Can Anyone Help Me Out? I Have An HP Pavilion Geforce GTX 1650 I bought Stock 256GBSSD/8GB RAM I UPGRADED THO, TO: 1.5TB SSD GTX 1650 32GB RAM Overclocked +100 IS THIS A PRETTY DECENT SET-UP? Do You Think I Can Run ULTRA SETTINGS? Please let me know your thoughts, I'm a beginner in all this. It's a Laptop BTW 💻

[@mahruskhan4715]

U can

[@ChoppedAndScrewedMusic]

@@mahruskhan4715 I have a 12th Gen Intel Desktop Now, Custom Built. We Run Ultra Everything + RTX ON I'm Walkin Heea 🚶‍♂️

[@hunterbawlz]

Watched this video then still bought 64 gb ddr4 at 3600 MHz 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@theloveguru7520]

That’s it?

[@steadfastscout4606]

This video aged like milk... I have 16gb dual channel and am dropping frames like crazy on hogwarts legacy

[@Coopy_]

7:33 am i the only one who sees that.... :-l

[@maxdube912]

I have 64gb ram

[@T1GER99]

Me 2 i got 4 16 gb Corsair Vengeance Rgb pro at 3600Mhz but now I think it’s overkill

[@stinkbombgaming2528]

bruh what 8 gb of ram is not enough for gaming

[@jerichog2166]

buy 16 or 32 then

[@cxa24]

It is an excuse for the 'educator' to harass you.

[@MUMMY9ful]

So buying a 4400mhz ram is useless??????

[@SCS2158]

It isn't useless but I think for gaming 3600 mhz is more than enough

[@MUMMY9ful]

@@xavdidit how would i know how much ram is recommended for my hardware? Thx

[@MUMMY9ful]

@@xavdidit thx!!!💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘🤍🤍🤍🤍👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@_Philosopher_]

Jai shri Ram

[@googleaccount4470]

Why is your voice so🤤🤤🤤

[@ManuelPoblete-ke5re]

Top comment is my brother

[@novastonegaming]

Who

[@whiterspon573]

lol only 16 GB for Gaming? lol buls... how shame for you thumbs down

[@bekay7663]

This does not explain what ram does at all.