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I'd leave your system as is. If you want to upgrade your motherboard and RAM, I'd just wait until you can get a totally new system. No point upgrading the RAM, you won't see a performance difference.

Hello! About 2 years ago I bought 8gbs (2x4gb) ddr2 ram off eBay, my Mobo only supports up to ddr2, so my question is should I upgrade my Motherboard soon to support ddr3 or ddr4 ram? I don't notice any problems with my ram it seems to perform just fine playing some newish games like: Project Cars 1 and 2(medium settings) Stranded Deep(ultra settings) Beamng Drive(high settings) X-Plane 11(high settings) car mechanic 2018(high settings) WRC 7 (ultra settings) Euro Truck simulator 2 (Ultra settings) etc, all of these games in 1080p btw. And when playing my ram usage never gets really high, Usually about 4-6GBs in usage.

So im not sure if it's really worth upgrading untill maybe the end of the year? Any help would be appreciated :)

 

Pc specs:

CPU: AMD phenom II x4 965 Black Edition 

GPU: Asus Nvidia gtx 760 DirectCU II OC Edition 2Gbs Vram

RAM: 2x4 Gbs DDR2

Mobo: Asus M4A785D-M Pro

PSU: Corsair TX650

OS: windows 10 Pro

If you want anymore specs just ask.

 

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nah, upgrade new CPU, new mobo and new RAM at the same time.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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I'd leave your system as is. If you want to upgrade your motherboard and RAM, I'd just wait until you can get a totally new system. No point upgrading the RAM, you won't see a performance difference.

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Gosh, I hate it when people forget. Anyway, check out my PC below, and there's a PCPartPicker link on my profile, If you wanna see what I'm planning.

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SYSTEM SPECS: Finally ditched the Pentium N3540, now I've got the following:

 

CPU - Ryzen 5 2400G

GPU - 1060 6GB Gigabyte G1 Gaming

RAM - 16GB DDR4 3000mhz Team T-Force Delta RGB

MOTHERBOARD - MSI B350 Tomahawk

PSU - EVGA 450BT

CASE - PHANTEKS  P350X

 

 

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17 minutes ago, Fixinit1 said:

I'd leave your system as is. If you want to upgrade your motherboard and RAM, I'd just wait until you can get a totally new system. No point upgrading the RAM, you won't see a performance difference.

ok, Thank you very much!

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