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Hello, I've not posted on the forums for a while, so please excuse my relative ignorance of memory matters. 
I have a gigabyte GA-P55A-UD5, currently with 2x2gb gskill ripjaw modules. Recently I've noticed the system is getting a little sluggish/bottlenecking with full memory usage, and I'm thinking about a big upgrade at the start of next year. However, I wondered if a quick fix for now would just to be to upgrade (or add to) the system RAM. The motherboard supports a max of 16gb. max 12800 ddr3, dual channel. I'm led to believe that 4x4gb would be the best way to achieve 16gb capacity.
So, should I:
a) bung in an extra 4gb kit (2x2gb) to bring up to 8gb total
b) bung in an extra 8gb kit (2x4gb) to bring up to 12gb total - would this confuse the memory controllers, mixing different memory amounts/kits??
c) go for a full replacement (4x4gb) for 16gb
d) just live with it until next year when I go for a full mobo+cpu+ram upgrade
Just looking for discussion, what might be a good upgrade path. Cheers for any advice offered.
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Current system CPU: i7 860, MOBO: GA-P55A-UD5, RAM: gskill ripjaw 2x2gb, GFX: Asus DirectCUII HD6970, SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB, etc
I have a gigabyte GA-P55A-UD5, currently with 2x2gb gskill ripjaw modules. Recently I've noticed the system is getting a little sluggish/bottlenecking with full memory usage, and I'm thinking about a big upgrade at the start of next year. However, I wondered if a quick fix for now would just to be to upgrade (or add to) the system RAM. The motherboard supports a max of 16gb. max 12800 ddr3, dual channel. I'm led to believe that 4x4gb would be the best way to achieve 16gb capacity.
So, should I:
a) bung in an extra 4gb kit (2x2gb) to bring up to 8gb total
b) bung in an extra 8gb kit (2x4gb) to bring up to 12gb total - would this confuse the memory controllers, mixing different memory amounts/kits??
c) go for a full replacement (4x4gb) for 16gb
d) just live with it until next year when I go for a full mobo+cpu+ram upgrade
Just looking for discussion, what might be a good upgrade path. Cheers for any advice offered.
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Current system CPU: i7 860, MOBO: GA-P55A-UD5, RAM: gskill ripjaw 2x2gb, GFX: Asus DirectCUII HD6970, SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB, etc
