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IAmAndre
By IAmAndre
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Hi,

 

I'm upgrading my rig with a Ryzen 5 2600, and also getting a new motherboard and RAM. I originally planned to buy an 8GB RAM stick, then buy an extra stick like every month until I have 32GB. Now considering that I'll be using Premiere and After Effects quite a bit, I think that 8GB would be too limiting so I decided to buy 16GB instead to start with, and then slowly upgrade. So should I go for a 16GB stick, then buy another one in like 2-3 months, and therefore potentially end up with 64GB by the end of next year, or just buy 2 8GB sticks now, and potentially end up with just 32GB? I mean considering my usage (video editing, web development, occasional gaming), is 64GB really worth it? Is having a single RAM stick for 3 months a bad idea? Would having 4 x 16 GB on a relatively cheap mATX motherboard impact performance? Does 64GB of RAM even make sense on a Ryzen 5 CPU?

 

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Buy 2 8GB sticks. Single channel RAM will saturate your bus and introduce some limitations, as opposed to dual or quad channel. And you likely won't need 64GB of RAM. If you need more than 16 then you can upgrade to 32 but I'd be surprised even then if you needed more than 16.

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Well Ryzen actually is more sensitive to single/dual channel than Intel, running an Intel CPU on single vs dual matters less unless memory intensive specific applications due to its stronger IMC.

 

Ryzen though does see benefits out of the box with it, maybe start with a 2x8gb, 16gb is quite much already and you may not even see the need for more memory if you'll not be working professionally.

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32GB will be enough unless you want to edit 8k or shizz like this. And having dual channel now is much more important, especially on Ryzen.

So start with a good 2x8GB Kit. I recommend Corsair, Geil, G skill

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1 minute ago, BelgianNoise said:

Just wanna throw this in here:

"Geil" means "Horny" in dutch, i just cant look at RAM anymore....

In German also :D

But it is also used as "awesome!"

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