Adding more RAM to my system, a few questions...

Lord Kram

Lord Kram

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Been having some problems as of late with quite a slowdown on my system due to a few programs eating up my ram, I currently have this following system spec:
ASUS P8Z68-V Motherboard, Intel core i5 sandy bridge 3.3Ghz (OC to 4.6gz)
4 GB Kingston Hyper X Genesis Grey (2x2GB)
Nvidia Geforce GTX 460
I want to be able to get at least 8gb of ram into my system to help speed things up a bit and be able to run a few more things without quite a slowdown, thing is though can I safely buy a couple of the above Kingston ram sticks that are 4gb each instead of 2gb, and will I still be able to run my overclock at the same speed without too many problems?
Thanks
 
If you got 2 4GB modules, then you shouldn't see any change in your OC. If however, you filled up all 4 slots, then you would put more strain on the memory controller which is in the CPU and therefore, you may see you need a slightly higher VCore to keep your OC stable.
 
Ok thanks for the advice! :)
Is the kingston 4gb sticks a good buy? Or are there any better about for a similar price?
Just wondering as I don't want to buy the same ram and double my amount from 4gb to 8gb and still have slowdowns on this pc
 
Yes, the Kingston is very good quality RAM, and I am sure that anyone else here will agree with me.

If you are getting slowdowns because you are running out of RAM, then the jump to 8GB will be highly noticeable for you.
 
Thanks guys
Gonna try and get these as soon as poss as its getting annoying trying to do more than 1 thing at a time with things taking forever sometimes, especially as when im playing WOW its eating up over 2gb of ram alone!
 
Have you looked in task manager when you are multitasking to see how much RAM is being used and if you are indeed having a shortage?
 
Yea ive installed 1 of those ram monitoring programs, and noticed WOW is using nearly 60% as when i close it through a right click method the % goes right back up, even then i still have 60% ish free as chrome/firefox uses quite a bit as well
 
Jordan97 said:
If you got 2 4GB modules, then you shouldn't see any change in your OC. If however, you filled up all 4 slots, then you would put more strain on the memory controller which is in the CPU and therefore, you may see you need a slightly higher VCore to keep your OC stable.
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VTT moreso than vcore, but i haven't noticed any issues, only when going to 4 dimms of big low latency 2133MHz RAM did i need to up it to 1.2v in one rig.
 
Well just ordered the 8gb dual channel kit, and noticed the price has gone right down from £59.99 to £44.99
Bargain!
Will reply with results once I get it :)
 
With RAM prices going cheap atm, is it worth going up to 4x 4gb (16gb) from 2x 4gb (8gb)?

Or would an increase to 16gb be an overkill?
 
Depends what your using pc for, gaming & most other things, I say 8gb is enough, but I use CS5 & find going from 8gb to 16gb useful.

As I use W7 64 bit, & by having a lot of memory, you can do nearly all the processing you perform on your large images, with the ram you have, instead of swapping out to the hard disk (scratch disk), so it's faster.
 
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