Help choosing a memory upgrade for my B450 please

[apple_man77]

Hello,

I'm trying to upgrade my 4 year old PC without going crazy with the hope of being able to play City Skylines 2, probably on lowish settings, and just give it a general boost until I go AM5.

I've got a B450 TOMAHAWK MAX motherboard and have just upgraded the CPU to a Ryzen 7 5800X.

I'm now wanting to swap my memory for something hopefully a little quicker and from 16gb to 32gb which seems to be the minimum now a days.

I'm currently running some Patriot Viper DDR4 25600 CL16 MEMORY (8GB X 2)

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I'm not quite sure what my best route is now...

Add 2 more identical sticks of ram to give me 32gb

Swap to 2 x 16gb ram of something different / slightly quicker

I don't need anything with fancy lights etc just something thats stable / quick and possibly works with the XMP boost on my mobo. Max I want to spend is £100...I was looking at this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...-25600c18-3600mhz-dual-channel-my-4d1-cs.html but not sure if theres anything better before going ahead.

Many thanks for any help

 

[apple_man77]

Thanks for the replies both.

I've just ordered a 32gb Viper Steel set which should hopefully do the trick

Thanks again for the replies, appreciate it.

 

[apple_man77]

I'm hoping the XMP settings in my BIOS overclock the memory as I don't have a clue what I'm doing with overclocking/memory timings etc.

I've had a first play on City Skylines 2 tonight and set the gfx on medium and it ran well so hopefully a but more RAM will help and then just a gfx card upgrade in a few months

 

[apple_man77]

Fitted today...changed the xmp and running lovely!

Thanks for the help.