RAM Maybe help?

[Ardu]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	£451.98 @ Aria PC
CPU Cooler	be quiet! - Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler	£67.25 @ CCL Computers
Motherboard	Asus - PRIME Z370-A II ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	£142.99 @ AWD-IT
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory	£67.98 @ Aria PC
Storage	Kingston - HyperX Fury 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£87.80 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£79.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Samsung - 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive	£199.99 @ Box Limited
Storage	Western Digital - BLACK SERIES 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	£68.29 @ Amazon UK
Video Card	EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card	£545.47 @ Scan.co.uk
Case	NZXT - H440 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply	Corsair - RMx (2018) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£115.40 @ Alza
Operating System	Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit	£83.99 @ Amazon UK
Software	Microsoft - Office Professional 2016 Software	£14.90 @ Amazon UK
Wireless Network Adapter	TP-Link - TL-WDN4800 PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter
Monitor	BenQ - XL2430T 24.0" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitor
Keyboard	Corsair - K70 RGB MK.2 Wired Gaming Keyboard	£102.11 @ Amazon UK
Mouse	Logitech - G502 HERO Wired Optical Mouse	£73.69 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Headphones	SteelSeries - Arctis 5 7.1 Channel Headset	£77.98 @ PC World Business
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£2179.81
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So this is my PC build, I already have basically everything this is just what I'm using to show what I have. I'm just curious as to if I should upgrade my RAM as compared to the rest of my PC it's a bit weak. So I was thinking maybe I should just get rid, and maybe get some faster RAM, and maybe 2x16 instead? Or is there not much point?

Thanks!

[boey]

Use case? Are you only going to be gaming on this? You can get a 2070 for cheaper than the 1080, since 10 series cards are not being produced, they are very expensive.

For gaming, 2x8gb is sufficient and an NVME SSD is not needed

[Skiiwee29]

For intel, RAM speed doesnt make nearly as much sense or difference compared to Ryzen. Unless you can find a really good deal on 3000 or 3200 speed kit, I wouldnt change it if you already have it. 16gb is all you need for gaming and everyday use. 

[Ardu]

4 minutes ago, _d0nut said:

Use case? Are you only going to be gaming on this? You can get a 2070 for cheaper than the 1080, since 10 series cards are not being produced, they are very expensive.

For gaming, 2x8gb is sufficient and an NVME SSD is not needed

I was just using PC part picker as a way of showing what I have, I already have all of the parts, I was just curious about the RAM is all, thanks for your help though

[Ardu]

2 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

For intel, RAM speed doesnt make nearly as much sense or difference compared to Ryzen. Unless you can find a really good deal on 3000 or 3200 speed kit, I wouldnt change it if you already have it. 16gb is all you need for gaming and everyday use. 

Thanks again!

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, Ardu said:

Thanks again!

np, and if you want to try and have fun, you can likely overclock the RAM to higher speeds as well manually. 

[Ardu]

6 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

np, and if you want to try and have fun, you can likely overclock the RAM to higher speeds as well manually. 

I'll look into it when I'm all set up

[Guest]

Not a fan of that board with a 9900K. I wouldn't do any overclocking on the cpu.

[Ardu]

Yeah I don't plan to OC the CPU tbh. Mainly because like, it will just be overkill really, not really any need for it to be faster for gaming.

[Oalei]

Well if the usage of ram is more than 16gb I would upgrade it, Anymore than needed is kinda useless.

[Bruno_A]

I noticed you put a WD Black 1TB hard drive in your list. The 1TB WD Black hard drives aren't worth the money and if you're buying 1TB, I recommend you use the WD Blue instead as it offers similar performance for a cheaper price. The WD Black offers better reliability due to features such as anti-vibration pads, etc., however, only from the 2TB model. Also, WD Black hard drives are much louder than WD Blue hard drives.

 

Edit: I also noticed you have a 970 Evo in your list. The 970 Evo Plus costs roughly the same as the 970 Evo and offers more performance. Also, why a 1TB NVMe SSD and 2 small, 240GB SATA SSDs, from different vendors? Make sure you really are going to use the speed of an NVMe SSD before spending that much on one and if you really need that much SSD storage, just go with one 500GB SSD instead of two 240GB SSDs.

[boey]

34 minutes ago, bruny06 said:

I noticed you put a WD Black 1TB hard drive in your list. The 1TB WD Black hard drives aren't worth the money and if you're buying 1TB, I recommend you use the WD Blue instead as it offers similar performance for a cheaper price. The WD Black offers better reliability due to features such as anti-vibration pads, etc., however, only from the 2TB model. Also, WD Black hard drives are much louder than WD Blue hard drives.

 

Edit: I also noticed you have a 970 Evo in your list. The 970 Evo Plus costs roughly the same as the 970 Evo and offers more performance. Also, why a 1TB NVMe SSD and 2 small, 240GB SATA SSDs, from different vendors? Make sure you really are going to use the speed of an NVMe SSD before spending that much on one and if you really need that much SSD storage, just go with one 500GB SSD instead of two 240GB SSDs.

NVME speeds will only really show their speed when moving big files and during bootup. Booting to windows is like 5 seconds faster on NVME too. Gaming won't see any difference between NVME and SATA SSDs, so it might be wiser to go for 1-2 1TB SATA SSDs(860 Evo maybe?)

[Ardu]

1 hour ago, bruny06 said:

I noticed you put a WD Black 1TB hard drive in your list. The 1TB WD Black hard drives aren't worth the money and if you're buying 1TB, I recommend you use the WD Blue instead as it offers similar performance for a cheaper price. The WD Black offers better reliability due to features such as anti-vibration pads, etc., however, only from the 2TB model. Also, WD Black hard drives are much louder than WD Blue hard drives.

 

Edit: I also noticed you have a 970 Evo in your list. The 970 Evo Plus costs roughly the same as the 970 Evo and offers more performance. Also, why a 1TB NVMe SSD and 2 small, 240GB SATA SSDs, from different vendors? Make sure you really are going to use the speed of an NVMe SSD before spending that much on one and if you really need that much SSD storage, just go with one 500GB SSD instead of two 240GB SSDs.

I appreciate what your saying, but this is my current PC, I was just suing PCPP as like a way to list what I have, I've had some of these parts for years, so like the WD Black is like 4 years old, and the SSD's are 2 and 1 year old, that's why it looks so odd, sorry for the confusion.

[Bruno_A]

3 minutes ago, Ardu said:

I appreciate what your saying, but this is my current PC, I was just suing PCPP as like a way to list what I have, I've had some of these parts for years, so like the WD Black is like 4 years old, and the SSD's are 2 and 1 year old, that's why it looks so odd, sorry for the confusion.

Never mind. If only I had read the whole post, I would read the part where you say that is your current setup. Sorry for the confusion.

[Ardu]

1 minute ago, bruny06 said:

Never mind. If only I had read the whole post, I would read the part where you say that is your current setup. Sorry for the confusion.

No problem fella

[brob]

There is a performance difference but it is quite small, see https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Core_i7_8700K_Coffee_Lake_Memory_Performance_Benchmark_Analysis/ for data.

 

Going to 32GB would offer some improvement. In the general case, more memory offers a better performance improvement than higher speed memory. Unless one is into content creation or other memory intensive work, the real world benefit of 32GB over 16GB would be marginal.