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I was digging around yesterday, and found some things to add to my PC. I want to focus on the RAM as that is what I don't want to waste my time with...

 

I have a Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard and 8GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill Ripjaws X RAM.

 

I found these 2GB 1RX8 Samsung RAM sticks, and I was wondering if it will add slight extra speed to my PC?

 

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If you need more RAM capacity then probably but I wouldn't mix and match mate, sometimes can cause little problems

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I was digging around yesterday, and found some things to add to my PC. I want to focus on the RAM as that is what I don't want to waste my time with...

 

I have a Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard and 8GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill Ripjaws X RAM.

 

I found these 2GB 1RX8 Samsung RAM sticks, and I was wondering if it will add slight extra speed to my PC?

 

Yep, it will work, it will slow all your RAM down to the speed of the slowest stick (1333MHz) but you will notice the capacity increase a lot more then the speed decrease, so I'd throw them in there if you don't mind mismatching RAM in terms of looks.

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I agree, its best to go with the same model as your current ram sticks

 

Shouldn't be a problem but I've done it in the past and experienced weird issues

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If you're doing simple day-to-day tasks, and you're not RAM restricted on those tasks, then adding those extra Memory sticks will not nothing at all to increase your system performance / speed.

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