Upgrade to 2 x16 GB kit or 4 x8GB DDR 4-3200?

[Supersonicwolfe]

So I have 16GB DDR4-3200 but noticed the RAM usage hits 90+% (well I have plenty of bloatware and I like to have guides on secondary screen... Plus I'm a tab horder)

 

So I'm considering upgrade. Now, my board have two empty slots so I am considering either

 

1. Sell my current kit and  buy a 32GB KIT (2×16GB) DDR4 3200 CL16 (or 3600 CL18 price are almost the same); or

 

2.Paying 57% of the price getting a 2x8 16GB KIT filling all the slots.

 

 

Note: My current kit is a RMA replacement kit from Corsair, but one of the RGB led partially failed... In less than a year...I didn't get that RMAed yet because I don't want to wait for 3 weeks again and not sure if it's still eligible for RMA.

(Perhaps buy the additional 16GB kit and then RMA the current kit? Or I will sell the kit at discount like slightly higher than non-RGB kits on eBay)

Note2: I am using a R5 3600, but plan to get a 5800X3D. So I don't think CAS latency and RAM frequency would matter too much.

 

[DigitalGoat]

3 minutes ago, Supersonicwolfe said:

So I have 16GB DDR4-3200 but noticed the RAM usage hits 90+% (well I have plenty of bloatware and I like to have guides on secondary screen... Plus I'm a tab horder)

 

So I'm considering upgrade. Now, my board have two empty slots so I am considering either

 

1. Sell my current kit and  buy a 32GB KIT (2×16GB) DDR4 3200 CL16 (or 3600 CL18 price are almost the same); or

 

2.Paying 57% of the price getting a 2x8 16GB KIT filling all the slots.

 

 

Note: my current kit is a RMA replacement kit, but one of the RGB led partially failed... I didn't get that RMAed yet because I don't want to wait for 3weeks again and not sure if it's still eligible for RMA.

(Perhaps buy the additional 16GB kit and then RMA the current kit? Or I will sell the kit at discount like slightly higher than non-RGB kits on eBay)

Note2: I am using a R5 3600, but plan to get a 5800X3D. So I don't think CAS latency and RAM frequency would matter too much.

 

Two RAM modules would give potentially better compatability for running at higher speeds, less load on the CPU's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard and the BIOS you may find 4xRAM modules work fine or could cause issues when trying to run at higher speed.

[Gokul_P]

10 minutes ago, Supersonicwolfe said:

So I have 16GB DDR4-3200 but noticed the RAM usage hits 90+% (well I have plenty of bloatware and I like to have guides on secondary screen... Plus I'm a tab horder)

 

So I'm considering upgrade. Now, my board have two empty slots so I am considering either

 

1. Sell my current kit and  buy a 32GB KIT (2×16GB) DDR4 3200 CL16 (or 3600 CL18 price are almost the same); or

 

2.Paying 57% of the price getting a 2x8 16GB KIT filling all the slots.

 

 

Note: My current kit is a RMA replacement kit from Corsair, but one of the RGB led partially failed... In less than a year...I didn't get that RMAed yet because I don't want to wait for 3 weeks again and not sure if it's still eligible for RMA.

(Perhaps buy the additional 16GB kit and then RMA the current kit? Or I will sell the kit at discount like slightly higher than non-RGB kits on eBay)

Note2: I am using a R5 3600, but plan to get a 5800X3D. So I don't think CAS latency and RAM frequency would matter too much.

 

1. Go with 2 dimms if it is possible. You dont have to worry about running at a low speed than advertised speed. 

[Supersonicwolfe]

1 minute ago, Gokul_P said:

1. Go with 2 dimms if it is possible. You dont have to worry about running at a low speed than advertised speed. 

 

8 minutes ago, DigitalGoat said:

Two RAM modules would give potentially better compatability for running at higher speeds, less load on the CPU's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard and the BIOS you may find 4xRAM modules work fine or could cause issues when trying to run at higher speed.

I don't think 3200 is going to be too fast for Ryzen 5 3600 to handle .

 

But I also found cheaper Kingston kit which is 15% cheaper.

 

Making buying a new Corsair 16GB kit  66% cost of getting a Kingston 32GB kit...  

Given Kingston kit can potentially controlled by RUBFusion without go through ICUE. I am leaning heavily towards that.

[Gokul_P]

1 minute ago, Supersonicwolfe said:

 

I don't think 3200 is going to be too fast for Ryzen 5 3600 to handle .

 

But I also found cheaper Kingston kit which is 15% cheaper.

 

Making buying a new Corsair 16GB kit  66% cost of getting a Kingston 32GB kit...  

Given Kingston kit can potentially controlled by RUBFusion without go through ICUE. I am leaning heavily towards that.

if you have 4 dimms it cant handle it even if its a 5950X. and it just crashes or don't  boot until you reset the bios. If you are fine running your Memory at a lower speed you can pickup 2 more dimms and  run at a lower speed like 2933 . 

[wONKEyeYEs]

1 hour ago, Supersonicwolfe said:

I am using a R5 3600, but plan to get a 5800X3D.

I have a 3700x with four sticks and they won't run at 3600MHz.

Had to down clock to 3200MHz.

I have a 5900x which runs four sticks at 3600MHz no problem.