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yoshiii
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  • Hello

    • I have a pc with a 4790k, MSI Gaming 7 mb, GTX 980ti, 16gb of 2133 ram.

       

      I want to upgrade to 32gb of ram.

       

      Will switching to four sticks of ram cause the system to lose performance?

       

      Will sticking with 2133 or higher ram speed help ?

       

      I use the pc for gaming, movie watching, 3D design and rendering, graphic design, movie and music editing, production.

     

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7 minutes ago, yoshiii said:

  • Hello

    • I have a pc with a 4790k, MSI Gaming 7 mb, GTX 980ti, 16gb of 2133 ram.

       

      I want to upgrade to 32gb of ram.

       

      Will switching to four sticks of ram cause the system to lose performance?

       

      Will sticking with 2133 or higher ram speed help ?

       

      I use the pc for gaming, movie watching, 3D design and rendering, graphic design, movie and music editing, production.

     

It shouldn't really be bad. Your theoretical iGPU perf might be slower (something nobody on desktops use) but other than that it's good

 

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Four sticks instead of two is actually better even though right now you're actually using the full bandwidth available to your CPU, and higher Ram Speed will only come in handy only if you're using the integrated GPU witch you're not, so go for it 

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