ddr4 more DDR4 Ram ?

[Darth_Kenobi]

hi all, 

 

i currently run corsair vengenace sticks, 2x16 3200mhz, i have a Ryz 7 5800x, 4070 super.

 

is there any benefit to me adding another 16 or 32 GB of the same RAM if I'm just gaming? what I found on google said anything over was overkill but I don't trust google search results anymore.

 

TIA & sorry if it's a dumb question.

[Hinjima]

2 minutes ago, Darth_Kenobi said:

hi all, 

 

i currently run corsair vengenace sticks, 2x16 3200mhz, i have a Ryz 7 5800x, 4070 super.

 

is there any benefit to me adding another 16 or 32 GB of the same RAM if I'm just gaming? what I found on google said anything over was overkill but I don't trust google search results anymore.

 

TIA & sorry if it's a dumb question.

Unless you are doing crazy modded games that require a ton of RAM.

No, not really. 32GB is plenty

[Eigenvektor]

Unless you're regularly running out of RAM, there's basically no advantage to adding more.

[Tetras]

3 minutes ago, Darth_Kenobi said:

is there any benefit to me adding another 16 or 32 GB of the same RAM if I'm just gaming?

You can easily lose more performance than you gain, because 4x sticks are harder to run on the memory controller and you may have to use a slower speed to stabilise it.

[mazylol]

I ran with 16GB for a very long time. The only real issue I had was that I would play warzone and have firefox open on the side at the same time. Otherwise I was fine. You have 32GB and as long as you are just gaming and not doing very, very heavy multitasking you should be fine. I only ever upgraded to 64GB because I started hitting walls when I got into programming and had CLion compiling in one window and having multiple browsers open in others.

[xg32]

3 hours ago, Darth_Kenobi said:

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if the memory controller can handle it it's like a 1-2% gain in certain games iirc, not sure if it was hardware unbox that did the test.

 

not a dumb question at all, ive been thinking about 64gb ram for browser tabs+work+gaming. next build tho.

[freeagent]

4x single rank sticks will perform better than 2x single rank sticks at the same speed.

 

4x 16GB might be a bit tough, or it might not be. 4x8GB is a breeze.

[Dedayog]

17 hours ago, Darth_Kenobi said:

hi all, 

 

i currently run corsair vengenace sticks, 2x16 3200mhz, i have a Ryz 7 5800x, 4070 super.

 

is there any benefit to me adding another 16 or 32 GB of the same RAM if I'm just gaming? what I found on google said anything over was overkill but I don't trust google search results anymore.

 

TIA & sorry if it's a dumb question.

You need to tell us your actual usage first

 

How can we know if you need more?

 

I use 29-30gb running bg3 or Ark lately, which are heavily modded .   

 

Just an example of games that can push ram usage high.