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should i stick with 8 gb of ram or got to 10?

Legolessed
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i have an intel DZ77GA-70K motherboard and a xeon e3-1220 v1. I just upgraded my ram to 8 gigs but i happen to have two 1 gig sticks of ddr3 1333mhz ram that i could put in. the ram i got is https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-HyperX-FURY-2x4GB-1600MHz/dp/B00J8E93G6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474511634&sr=8-1&keywords=fury+x+ddr3+8gb+kit. so should i stick with 8 gigs or should i thow in the other two so i can get a total of 10 gb of ram?

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4 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

i have an intel DZ77GA-70K motherboard and a xeon e3-1220 v1. I just upgraded my ram to 8 gigs but i happen to have two 1 gig sticks of ddr3 1333mhz ram that i could put in. the ram i got is https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-HyperX-FURY-2x4GB-1600MHz/dp/B00J8E93G6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474511634&sr=8-1&keywords=fury+x+ddr3+8gb+kit. so should i stick with 8 gigs or should i thow in the other two so i can get a total of 10 gb of ram?

If you can fit more add more, it will however make all your RAM run at 1333mhz instead of 1600 as it adopts the speed of the slowest installed.

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Just now, Mike Soda said:

If you can fit more add more, it will however make all you RAM run at 133mhz instead of 1600 as it adopts the speed of the slowest installed.

most people have told me though that the ram speed matters less than the amount. obviously 8gb of ddr4 will perform better then 32gb of ddr but you get the point

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I would run it. In all likelihood it will even run in Dual Channel, just at the lower 1333mhz. More RAM is more important than faster RAM at this level.

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9 hours ago, asand1 said:

I would run it. In all likelihood it will even run in Dual Channel, just at the lower 1333mhz. More RAM is more important than faster RAM at this level.

what if it was 1066mhz?

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2 hours ago, Legolessed said:

what if it was 1066mhz?

I have a generic 2gb kingston 1333mhz paired with 8gb hyperx fury 1866mhz, it runs at 1333 by default but i manually set it to 1600(limit of my cpu). Both(8gb+2gb) runs at 1600mhz on dual channel.

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