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RAM Upgrade help

Ironhawk24
By Ironhawk24
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Hi all,

 

I am wanting to upgrade my RAM from my current Hyper x Fury 2x4Gb DDR4  2400MHZ to 16Gb

 

My problem is I'm not sure what arrangement to have. Ideally I would keep my current RAM to save money, time and effort.

 

Do I go for...

 

- Another 2x4Gb 

- Another 1x8Gb

- 2x8b and selling my current RAM and if so what would be the advantages of this.

 

Thank you

 

 

 

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third option. this will help you purchase faster ram. this will be more noticeable when you are using a ryzen CPU as faster ram = better performance. 

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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7 hours ago, MartinKweh said:

third option. this will help you purchase faster ram. this will be more noticeable when you are using a ryzen CPU as faster ram = better performance. 

 

7 hours ago, 5x5 said:

Grab 2x8 of faster RAM and sell the current sticks

I think I'm going for this option and spend that little bit extra. Also I realised that my mobo is only duel channel anyway.Thanks :)

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14 hours ago, Ironhawk24 said:

ASUS Z179-P

You mean Z170-P right ?

 

If you don't think you will need more than 16GB Ram then you could just add another 2 x 4GB kit of the same Ram if you can find it for a decent price, or any other brand with the same frequency/timings should also work fine.

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