Ram Speed vs Size

[itoll88]

Hi All. 

 

Looking for some advise. 

 

I have an entry level gaming laptop running Ryzen 3550h CPU and GTX1050. It came with 8gb of ram running at 3200mhz. 

 

I got a great deal on a 16gb (2x8gb) 3200 Crucial Ballistic ram and have installed it in the laptop.

 

It will only run at 2400mhz. I have noticed the original ram was 1.2v and the new one is 1.35 maybe this is the cause. 

 

Am I sacrificing much by running this ram ? I am unable to access any changes to the memory speeds or settings in the Bios as it is a HP laptop and they have disabled a lot of settings. 

 

Is the extra 8gb of ram worth the slower speed given the limitations of the GTX1050 anyway ? 

 

Opinions would be greatly welcomed. 

 

Thanks 

Ian 

[coderrquitsreality]

There are RAM speed caps. It's a decent speed loss but it's fine. Personally I go for size over speed.

[Overbuilder]

Is it 2x4gb ?

[itoll88]

Yes it was orginaly 2 x 4gb sticks

 

[Overbuilder]

Well both have dual channel... There are plenty of benchmarks on the internet but they are generally done on more high end hardware, I would say for your laptop the size would have more of an effect than the speed... You COULD always run a benchmark on both configurations and that would tell you for sure which would be faster for gaming, but there are other uses for ram so it really depends on what you do on your laptop aside from gaming, if you do game that is. 

[itoll88]

I mainly use it for gaming, a bit of light office work and occasionaly Adobe photoshop for work. Thats a good idea I will have a look at a few bench marks and see if there is a real difference in performance.