Faster memory or more speed?

[Bondy3]

my laptop is currently running 16gb of DDR3 memory at 1600Mhz dual channel,   but I am running out of memory and getting hard faults causing some issues.

 

my laptop supports 32gb at 1333Mhz single channel,  if I upgrade my memory capacity but lower the speed of my memory, will that help me or hurt me?

 

its a dell m4600 (precision) laptop,  not using it for gaming, using it for work related things (multiple IDEs,  SQL jobs, etc)

[CatXice]

ram speeds dont really matter that much and i doubt yr using over 16gb unless you are doing massive cpu work which in a laptop i wont think you would be not to use 16gb of ram 

[Epic_Nex]

You must have a lot of tabs open to be running out of memory with 16GBs. I mean at least double digits on a few browsers. If your running out of memory then yeah upgrade to 32GB, even if it is a bit slower... but how are you running out of memory????

[CatXice]

1 minute ago, Epic_Nex said:

You must have a lot of tabs open to be running out of memory with 16GBs. I mean at least double digits on a few browsers. If your running out of memory then yeah upgrade to 32GB, even if it is a bit slower... but how are you running out of memory????

he isnt i can have bf1 runnin at 4k rocket league at 4k and csgo at 4k and dont hit 16gb of ram......

[Mira Yurizaki]

6 minutes ago, Bondy3 said:

my laptop is currently running 16gb of DDR3 memory at 1600Mhz dual channel,   but I am running out of memory and getting hard faults causing some issues.

 

my laptop supports 32gb at 1333Mhz single channel,  if I upgrade my memory capacity but lower the speed of my memory, will that help me or hurt me?

For most applications, RAM speed doesn't really impact performance much.

 

However, I would see why you're running out of memory in the first place and see if it's a problem you can fix.

[Bondy3]

3 minutes ago, Epic_Nex said:

You must have a lot of tabs open to be running out of memory with 16GBs. I mean at least double digits on a few browsers. If your running out of memory then yeah upgrade to 32GB, even if it is a bit slower... but how are you running out of memory????

ive got 5 different projects in in intellij running at the same time and mySQL workbench running some jobs, and 50 chrome tabs open and listening to spotify,  etc etc

 

I don't game on my laptop,  its all work related stuff

[Oshino Shinobu]

3 minutes ago, CatXice said:

he isnt i can have bf1 runnin at 4k rocket league at 4k and csgo at 4k and dont hit 16gb of ram......

Gaming really isn't memory intensive. If he's running production focused applications, RAM usage will be a lot higher. OP never even mentioned it was for games. 

[Bondy3]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Gaming really isn't memory intensive. If he's running production focused applications, RAM usage will be a lot higher. OP never even mentioned it was for games. 

Sorry I should have clarified, I don't game. its all production related things,  (multiple IDEs, SQL jobs, etc)

[paps511]

More Ram

If you were going from 16 gb at 2400 to 32 at 800, then there might be a difference, but from 1600 to 1333 is not that big of a change.

[Bondy3]

2 minutes ago, paps511 said:

More Ram

If you were going from 16 gb at 2400 to 32 at 800, then there might be a difference, but from 1600 to 1333 is not that big of a change.

also going from dual channel to single channel

[paps511]

2 minutes ago, Bondy3 said:

also going from dual channel to single channel

right....

Can you run a benchmark, buy the kit, run a benchmark and compare? Then return if it is not better

[Bondy3]

5 minutes ago, paps511 said:

right....

Can you run a benchmark, buy the kit, run a benchmark and compare? Then return if it is not better

thats probably what I will end up doing, the kit will run me about 85 bucks on newegg.  just wanted someone to let me know it was going to be alright before I pulled the trigger.

 

thanks for the feedback

[paps511]

1 hour ago, Bondy3 said:

thats probably what I will end up doing, the kit will run me about 85 bucks on newegg.  just wanted someone to let me know it was going to be alright before I pulled the trigger.

 

thanks for the feedback

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