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So I have 8GB of Kingston HyperX Fury or whatever its called, and i noticed that I run into a bottleneck every now and then. The goods new is that i have 4 slots on my motherboard. The question is, do i just buy more ram, plug it in and start working or do i have to do anything to configure it? Any help is appreciated.

 

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You need to get matching RAM to avoid unstability. Other than that, if you have XMP enabled, set it to auto or disable before installing more RAM. You can enable it again after first boot with new RAM. Nothing else needed.

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ram doesnt make your PC faster

 

what is this "bottleneck" youre talking about?

are you using all 8GB?

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The bottleneck that i experience is just every so often while running multiple high performance applications such as Autocad, my pc freezes for a second and then completes whatever task I assigned it. I have had Task Manager open when this happened and it was showing that memory was at 100%.

 

My system specs are:

-i7 4790k

-r9 280x

-EVGA 750B2

-Kingston 120gb SSD

-seagate barracuda 1tb

-Kingston HyperX Fury Ram (the red ones 8GB)

Fractal design R4 case

-MSI gaming 3 motherboard

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  1. What bottleneck are you experiencing?
  2. Do you have the sticks in the proper corresponding DIMMs?
  3. Have you made any changes to your MOBO before install?
  4. System specs. would be nice!

 

 

The second question is the winner. If you have 4 DIMM slots, the RAM should be in matching color slots. In general, you should place the RAM like so from left to right: RAM, no RAM, RAM, no RAM

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The bottleneck that i experience is just every so often while running multiple high performance applications such as Autocad, my pc freezes for a second and then completes whatever task I assigned it. I have had Task Manager open when this happened and it was showing that memory was at 100%.

 

My system specs are:

-i7 4790k

-r9 280x

-EVGA 750B2

-Kingston 120gb SSD

-seagate barracuda 1tb

-Kingston HyperX Fury Ram (the red ones 8GB)

Fractal design R4 case

-MSI gaming 3 motherboard

I would advise, before you do anything else, that you update the MOBO's BIOS if you have not as yet. The latest is here v2.9, date released=2015-09-02

 

I would ensure you have XMP enabled in your BIOS too, to take advantage of any OC RAM profiles on the RAM.

 

Now make sure you ground yourself from static electricity before you go into your PC and make any changes.

 

Read the below post too and next time you make a post and someone replies and you want to reply to their reply, quote them or put a @ sign in front of their name so they would know you replied or said something you want them to know.

 

 

The second question is the winner. If you have 4 DIMM slots, the RAM should be in matching color slots. In general, you should place the RAM like so from left to right: RAM, no RAM, RAM, no RAM

I follow what you are saying but actually, he should place the RAM like this.....no RAM....RAM.....no RAM......RAM. This is for when you are using RAM in dual channel configuration. You can read this in the manual on page 1-15.....not saying you should read it but OP should.

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I would advise, before you do anything else, that you update the MOBO's BIOS if you have not as yet. The latest is here v2.9, date released=2015-09-02

 

I would ensure you have XMP enabled in your BIOS too, to take advantage of any OC RAM profiles on the RAM.

 

Now make sure you ground yourself from static electricity before you go into your PC and make any changes.

 

Read the below post too and next time you make a post and someone replies and you want to reply to their reply, quote them or put a @ sign in front of their name so they would know you replied or said something you want them to know.

 

 

I follow what you are saying but actually, he should place the RAM like this.....no RAM....RAM.....no RAM......RAM. This is for when you are using RAM in dual channel configuration. You can read this in the manual on page 1-15.....not saying you should read it but OP should.

Thanks, and yes my Ram are in slots 2 and 4

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I follow what you are saying but actually, he should place the RAM like this.....no RAM....RAM.....no RAM......RAM. This is for when you are using RAM in dual channel configuration. You can read this in the manual on page 1-15.....not saying you should read it but OP should.

 

Sorry... Said it backwards

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