More RAM=Slower PC?

[BetterThanTofu]

Hi I recently built my first PC (I'm 17) and one of my friends said that since I put 16gb of RAM in my computer that somehow I am slowing it down? He said that it takes "it" longer to cycle? I'm just asking you for confirmation. Personally I think he is just butthurt that my PC is better than his now and he wants to seem smarter. Thanks! (I'm pretty new to building PCs)

-------------------------------------------------------------------

PC specs for those who care:

AMD FX-8320 Vishera 8-Core 3.5GHz (OC @ 3.8GHz)

CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Heatsink

ASRock 970 EXTREME3 Motherboard

G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB 240-Pin

Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 7950 3GB

Western Digital 1TB HDD (Caviar Black)

Corsair CX600 600w PSU

[Puppet]

Not at all, what he may be referring to is that some larger memory modules like 8gb sticks have a higher CAS latency, nothing to worry about!

[Musguelha17]

Your friend is stupid. More RAM wont make the PC faster (if you have enough) but it certainly wont make it slower.

[Mrinsane]

MORE RAM = FASTER MULTITASKING! = FASTER COMPUTER!

[Guest]

MORE RAM = FASTER MULTITASKING! = FASTER COMPUTER!

Um.

Right......... Do I file this along side "lights make things go faster"?

[Samdb]

MORE RAM = FASTER MULTITASKING! = FASTER COMPUTER!

Maybe stick it in with "Go faster stripes"?

[Kev]

That's a dumb friend you got their.

[Nit3Rid3R]

MORE RAM = FASTER MULTITASKING! = FASTER COMPUTER!

Hey, my lights make it go faster works m'kay

[mvitkun]

it'd only make your computer slower if,as mentioned above the CAS latency is higher,or if the frequency is lower than your previous ram.

as to cycling ram,you should just put that into the part of your brain with santa and the tooth fairy .

your computer doesn't cycle memory.

although if you had a faulty memory stick it would take longer to stress test one into failing since theres more GB of ram to test.

furthermore I think it should be posted in this thread.

http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/community-portal/general-discussion-offtopic/96584-idiots

[Victor Golf]

Depends. I had 8 gigs of ram and I decided to buy more. Both kits were rated at 1600mhz but one of the kits has a cas latency of 8 and the other has 9. In the bios, the memory is running at 1333 for me. I am going to fix this eventually.

[Puppet]

It's a confusing subject, but thanks to modern processors with better memory controllers it's not something you really have to worry about that much.

Memory does go through cycles, that's what the clock speed is all about, basically its cycles per second. This can be deceptive though as things like CAS latency will have an effect on the clock speed. If you divide CAS/clock speed you will get a response time, the lower the better, but we are talking minute fractions of a second. Usually there isn't much difference in performance between the best and the worst kits, maybe 1% at the most, if you overclock them to the extreme you might get more, but IMO its still negligible.

AMD APU's seem to perform better in terms of graphics with faster memory, so this would be the only reason to buy really fast memory.

[TechBlitZ]

Your friends is just butthurt. if you are a good friend to him, next time he tells you crap like this just smile politely. You have a good PC there my friend =)

[Art Vandelay]

You may not be able to achieve as high memory overclocks, if you are running 4 DIMMs on a dual channel system, but other than that, it should be about the same speed.

[mgsstar]

More ram gives you the ability to run more programs and programs that eat ram.