stupid ram + CPU question

[Countycupid]

i bought a prebuild pc a couple of months ago, and i want to upgrade the amount of ram it has

 

specs:

 - CPU: i5 4460
 - motherboard: ASUS H97-PLUS

 - RAM: 2x 4GB Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB DDR3-1600 UDIMM

 

the motherboard has a total of 4 slots, 2 of which are used currently.

the cpu can support up to 32GB of ram.

 

my question is, can i just buy 2 more sticks of the same ram and put them in, or do i have to buy a new set off 4?

i'm not really into computer building and i have had some problems with compatible ram in the past.

 

a second question involves the cpu. In the datasheet of the cpu it says it has 4 cores and 4 threads, but speccy shows that Hyperthreading is supported but disabled.

Can i enable this myself in the bios or is this a motherboard spec?

 

thanks in advance ッ

 

 

 

links to components:

CPU:http://ark.intel.com/products/80817/Intel-Core-i5-4460-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz

motherboard: https://www.asus.com/be-nl/Motherboards/H97PLUS/

ram: http://eu.crucial.com/ProductDisplay?urlRequestType=Base&catalogId=10152&categoryId=&productId=11363&urlLangId=-1&langId=-1&top_category=&parent_category_rn=&storeId=10152

[Nena Trinity]

You can probably buy a 1600MHz/CL9 32GB (4x8) kit!  (why not just add 8GB more and have 16GB?)

[Countycupid]

i've looked at that in advance and it seems like 32 GB kits are very expansive (>€150). i'm not really willing to spent that much yet on my new desktop. That's why i would like to just buy 2 more sticks of ram.

[Countycupid]

that was my question ツ

can i just add 2 more of the same memory sticks to get 16GB without the cpu or motherboard derping?

[runit3]

that was my question ツ

can i just add 2 more of the same memory sticks to get 16GB without the cpu or motherboard derping?

Yes.

[Goat]

Yes, you can fill up the two extra slots for 16gb of ram.

[Presmo]

Do you really need 16gb of ram? For gaming you don't really need more than 8, but if you need 16gb just get the exact same ram or it wont work

[The Official Czex]

RAM won't increase performance. Buy a SSD.

[FruitBasketSilex]

i've looked at that in advance and it seems like 32 GB kits are very expansive (>€150). i'm not really willing to spent that much yet on my new desktop. That's why i would like to just buy 2 more sticks of ram.

You can just buy two more sticks and slot them in, the closer the specs are to your current kit, the larger the garauntee to work. You can use Speccy or CPU-Z to check your exact ram specs.

[Countycupid]

i already have an ssd in my pc, i just want to be able to do some light video editing and play some ram hogging games (factorio).

I also use a vm session from time to time for schoolwork.

 

I found the ram modules that are in my pc now:

http://www.bol.com/nl/p/bls2c4g3d1609es2lx0ceu-8gb-kit/9200000010549959/

 

thx for all the quick reply's from all of you ツ

[Nena Trinity]

Do you really need 16gb of ram? For gaming you don't really need more than 8, but if you need 16gb just get the exact same ram or it wont work

 

These days some games will push at the limit or past 8GB so if this trend keeps up he want 16GB in the future anyways right?

[SteveGrabowski0]

Just buy a 2x4GB kit of the same RAM. 16GB won't show much benefit over 8GB right now, but RAM is so cheap it's a good purchase to make right now for the future. Because DDR3 won't be cheap once everyone is using DDR4. 32GB is massive overkill for gaming. 16GB is already overkill for gaming, but you have a few titles starting to recommend that much RAM. I can't imagine the sweetspot for RAM for gaming will jump fourfold in the lifetime of your i5 system, so don't worry about 32GB.

[SteveGrabowski0]

As to your second question, the i5-4460 doesn't have hyperthreading. There is no way to enable it. Only the i3, i7, and Xeon E3/E5/E7 have hyperthreading on the desktop.

[thevipper]

amazon us has the 8gb crucial blastix sport kit (2x4gb) 1600 mhz for 37.99 if it wasn't crucial I would say get a whole new kit but crucial is the only ram I trust enough to buy outside of kits or mix n match kits, their ram works with just about everything non ecc related