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8 hours ago, GTAWWEKID said:

If I buy a second set of sticks and place them in the remaining slots, will this improve any performance besides more ram?

It can improve system RAM access performance by up to 3% if you're extremely lucky, and are using a workload that is bottlenecked by RAM performance. (those are extremely rare)

 

More likely, you can get a better performance increase by just tightening your RAM timings, or maybe overclocking the RAM a little bit using the suggested settings from 1usmus's DRAM Calculator For Ryzen.

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I'm currently running a AMD 3700x on a MSI X570 Edge Wifi mobo.
I have VENGEANCE® RGB PRO 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16 Memory Kit installed currently in dual channel configuration.
If I buy a second set of sticks and place them in the remaining slots, will this improve any performance besides more ram? 
 

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11 minutes ago, GTAWWEKID said:

will this improve any performance besides more ram? 

Yes, but by how much depends on the situation you are looking for more performance from...

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8 hours ago, GTAWWEKID said:

If I buy a second set of sticks and place them in the remaining slots, will this improve any performance besides more ram?

It can improve system RAM access performance by up to 3% if you're extremely lucky, and are using a workload that is bottlenecked by RAM performance. (those are extremely rare)

 

More likely, you can get a better performance increase by just tightening your RAM timings, or maybe overclocking the RAM a little bit using the suggested settings from 1usmus's DRAM Calculator For Ryzen.

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9 hours ago, GTAWWEKID said:

If I buy a second set of sticks and place them in the remaining slots, will this improve any performance besides more ram?

Are you page filings/ running out of ram? if so, yea. 

If you don't need more ram and/or you're not page filing or running out of ram, no, zen 2 only has 2 memory channels so there's no extra bandwidth (assuming the 2x16 configuration is  identical in specs to the 4x16).

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