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Should i buy more RAM or faster RAM?

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I currently have 16gb of corsair vengance pro series RAM 1866MHZ.

My computer is sometimes running at 50% RAM idle.And is beginning to feel a bit slow while using programmes such as After Effects, Premier, and other editing software. I was thinking of getting another identical 16gb but i saw they do a new version that is the same price but runs at 2400MHZ.

My question is, should i get an additional 16gb of the same speed, or keep 16gb but get faster speed?

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additional 16 gb i would say.

the faster speed doesn't really matter most of the time, and editing sortware likes large amounts of RAM

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yh man, get more. Faster RAM only has a bigger number on it, it's still faster than anything else in your system.

Home PC:

CPU: i7 4790s ~ Motherboard: Asus B85M-E ~ RAM: 32GB Ballistix Sport DDR3 1666 ~ GPU: Sapphire R9 390 Nitro ~ Case: Corsair Carbide Spec-03 ~ Storage: Kingston Predator 240GB   PCIE M.2 Boot, 2TB HDD, 3x 480GB SATA SSD's in RAID 0 ~ PSU:    Corsair CX600
Display(s): Asus PB287Q , Generic Samsung 1080p 22" ~ Cooling: Arctic T3 Air Cooler, All case fans replaced with Noctua NF-B9 Redux's ~ Keyboard: Logitech G810 Orion ~ Mouse: Cheap Microsoft Wired (i like it) ~ Sound: Radial Pro USB DAC into 250w Powered Speakers ~ Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise x64
 

Work PC:

CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1275 v3 ~ Motherboard: Asrock E3C226D2I ~ RAM: 16GB DDR3 ~ GPU: GTX 460 ~ Case: Silverstone SG05 ~ Storage: 512GB SATA SSD ~ Displays: 3x1080p 24" mix and matched Dell monitors plus a 10" 1080p lilliput monitor above ~ Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise x64

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1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

yh man, get more. Faster RAM only has a bigger number on it, it's still faster than anything else in your system.

well, except for cache and VRAM, but you know what i mean

Home PC:

CPU: i7 4790s ~ Motherboard: Asus B85M-E ~ RAM: 32GB Ballistix Sport DDR3 1666 ~ GPU: Sapphire R9 390 Nitro ~ Case: Corsair Carbide Spec-03 ~ Storage: Kingston Predator 240GB   PCIE M.2 Boot, 2TB HDD, 3x 480GB SATA SSD's in RAID 0 ~ PSU:    Corsair CX600
Display(s): Asus PB287Q , Generic Samsung 1080p 22" ~ Cooling: Arctic T3 Air Cooler, All case fans replaced with Noctua NF-B9 Redux's ~ Keyboard: Logitech G810 Orion ~ Mouse: Cheap Microsoft Wired (i like it) ~ Sound: Radial Pro USB DAC into 250w Powered Speakers ~ Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise x64
 

Work PC:

CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1275 v3 ~ Motherboard: Asrock E3C226D2I ~ RAM: 16GB DDR3 ~ GPU: GTX 460 ~ Case: Silverstone SG05 ~ Storage: 512GB SATA SSD ~ Displays: 3x1080p 24" mix and matched Dell monitors plus a 10" 1080p lilliput monitor above ~ Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise x64

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Does your motherboard support faster RAM?

GPU: XFX RX 7900 XTX

CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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Faster RAM doesn't always help and if you can't go up then you won't be able  to get faster RAM. 1866mhz should be fine though for the most part but you may be able to OC it.

i5 6600k @ 4.4ghz on Hyper 212 Evo

Powercolor RX 480 8Gb Red Devil @1330Mhz

 

Bottom line:  Don't be a spaz or an 800lb gorilla when installing your expensive CPU, and you won't have any problems. --Phate.exe

 

 

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49 minutes ago, C0nn0r said:

I currently have 16gb of corsair vengance pro series RAM 1866MHZ.

My computer is sometimes running at 50% RAM idle.And is beginning to feel a bit slow while using programmes such as After Effects, Premier, and other editing software. I was thinking of getting another identical 16gb but i saw they do a new version that is the same price but runs at 2400MHZ.

My question is, should i get an additional 16gb of the same speed, or keep 16gb but get faster speed?

More RAM. But if you have 16gb, why is it using 50% at idle?

i5 6600k @ 4.4ghz on Hyper 212 Evo

Powercolor RX 480 8Gb Red Devil @1330Mhz

 

Bottom line:  Don't be a spaz or an 800lb gorilla when installing your expensive CPU, and you won't have any problems. --Phate.exe

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Krillingt75961 said:

More RAM. But if you have 16gb, why is it using 50% at idle?

I'm not sure, some sort of anti malware thing is using loads of RAM but i can't end it in task manager, also the application manager for Avid uses quite a lot

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