8Pack Overclocked Bundle - RAM upgrade

Jay737

Jay737

Jay737

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Hi
Back in 2018, I purchased this amazing kit (8Pack Extreme Overclocked i7 8086K @5.1Ghz - Elite Tier Gaming Bundle). It was incredibly stable (@5.2Ghz) and still performs really well.
However, since I started developing in Unreal Engine, I soon realized that 16Gig of RAM is nowhere near enough now, so I'm looking to upgrade the memory.
The problem is that I've already tried this a couple of years ago.
I purchased an additional pair of sticks (2x8GB, identical to what came in the bundle) to fill all four slots of the Maximus Hero X, only to find out that it broke the overclocking profile.
The CPU went back to its default 4Ghz and I couldn't get it back up simply because I don't have the knowledge to tinker with voltages and frequencies so I returned the pair for a refund and reloaded the profile from a backup file.
Long story short, a couple of years later I'm at the point where I'm willing to sacrifice the CPU OC for more memory so here is my question.
Can I possibly swap the two sticks of "Team Group 8Pack 16GB" for another two sticks of "Team Group 8Pack 32GB" without destroying the OC profile?
All I know is that adding another two sticks breaks the profile but is it the same if I just swap them for the same model with a larger capacity?

Thanks
Jay
 
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Thank you, gentlemen. I have a copy of the OC bios profile but I shall take few photos as well I suppose.
Anyway, I ordered the new combo and will hope for the best..
 
Tetras said:
You ordered the 8Pack kit with the Samsung B-Die, is that right?

If so, it should work fine, because I believe they're all older dies (dual rank). I'm just asking because single rank 16GB sticks need a BIOS update to work properly on some 8th/9th gen boards. A BIOS update would be very risky for your profiles, I'd imagine.
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Yes, the original bundle came with: Team Group 8Pack Edition 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit
and I'm going to swap this one for: Team Group 8Pack Edition 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit
I hope it'll work "out of the box". I'm just surprised I can still buy the same thing, five years later :)
 
Tetras said:
Cool. Should be good, then.

The problem with some of the newer sticks is related to this, if you're curious or decide to buy something else later for more capacity.
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hmm, interesting.. now I'm tempted to buy another 32GB kit just in case. I intend to keep this rig for another few years. Also, Unreal Engine Editor has some serious memory leak issues though.
Would you happen to know if there is an option to send the "upgraded" bundle (or the whole PC) back to OC_uk to re-tune it if I decide to go for 64 in the future?
 
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