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I am about to buy a PC that only has a stick of 16GB DDR5 (6000MHz in case that changes anything) and i would add either two 32GB DDR5 (also 6000MHz) or one stick if that helps with bottlenecking and performance. Would this make bottlenecking or no? If so i can just take out the original 16GB of ram but since this would be my first pc i am not sure if it would ruin the computer by switching the ram. I am on a budget so it is a cheaper PC being 999 USD. I do hear to not buy from BestBuy but it is a cheaper PC and has good specs. If you want to look at it is a CyberPowerPC

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8 minutes ago, GorillaPixles said:

I am about to buy a PC that only has a stick of 16GB DDR5 (6000MHz in case that changes anything) and i would add either two 32GB DDR5 (also 6000MHz) or one stick if that helps with bottlenecking and performance. Would this make bottlenecking or no? If so i can just take out the original 16GB of ram but since this would be my first pc i am not sure if it would ruin the computer by switching the ram. I am on a budget so it is a cheaper PC being 999 USD. I do hear to not buy from BestBuy but it is a cheaper PC and has good specs. If you want to look at it is a CyberPowerPC

No, you don't "ruin" a PC buy changing RAM.  It's something PC's are built for.

 

You can either add an identical stick of 16GB to the existing, or remove the existing and put in another kit of your choice. 6000 is good.

 

How do you know those specs are good, given you don't understand RAM at all.  What are you using as a metric?  Honest question, no judgement.

 

 

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8 minutes ago, GorillaPixles said:

I am about to buy a PC that only has a stick of 16GB DDR5 (6000MHz in case that changes anything) and i would add either two 32GB DDR5 (also 6000MHz) or one stick if that helps with bottlenecking and performance. Would this make bottlenecking or no? If so i can just take out the original 16GB of ram but since this would be my first pc i am not sure if it would ruin the computer by switching the ram. I am on a budget so it is a cheaper PC being 999 USD. I do hear to not buy from BestBuy but it is a cheaper PC and has good specs. If you want to look at it is a CyberPowerPC

32GB is plenty for gaming workloads still so you can just add another 16GB stick to the one that is in the PC.

Make sure its an identical 16GB stick.

 

You can also remove the 16GB stick and put a brand new 2x16GB kit in the system if you want.

You will not ruin the computer by changing out the RAM.

Try to keep the RAM at 6000Mhz CL30.

 

Its also a pretty straight forwards thing to do for a beginner 🙂 RAM is easy to swap.

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4 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

No, you don't "ruin" a PC buy changing RAM.  It's something PC's are built for.

 

You can either add an identical stick of 16GB to the existing, or remove the existing and put in another kit of your choice. 6000 is good.

 

How do you know those specs are good, given you don't understand RAM at all.  What are you using as a metric?  Honest question, no judgement.

 

 

honestly i asked on reddit and there were people saying the specs were good. But either saying to not buy a pre-built/not buy from best buy, or to just build a PC. There was one guy who just said the specs were good. I just remembered i would compare them to the specs in my current laptop. And to RTX cards, they showed up good. these were the websites btw cpu and gpu

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