Looking to upgrade my RAM

[PeN]

Hi Folks

Wanting to get a good ram boost on my 7 year old PC... currently RAM is the only bottle neck and the machine runs great other than that.

Currently have Asus Maximus VIII Hero Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard, with Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB.... 4GBx4...

looking at Corsair DOMINATOR PLATINUM RGB 64GB (4x16GB)

Can anyone comment on whether this would be good for compatibility and whether there would be a better choice?

 

[Tetras]

All the 16GB sticks I can see on the QVL are double sided, so that's probably the main thing to watch. I'm not sure if Corsair Dominator is one of those models (you don't say what speed, or version).

Prior to 10th gen, the compatibility with single sided 16GB sticks (2GB chips) is consistently dubious. As far as I know, Corsair don't guarantee that different versions will be consistent and they don't have a compatibility guarantee.

Kingston's memory checker only recommends double sided 16GB sticks for Z170.

I looked at the BIOS for your board and though Asus says it improve memory compatibility in the latest BIOS, they don't say what kind of compatibility.

 

[EsaT]

Most 16GB DIMMs are now likely single sided with 16 Gbit chips.
Only old (but fast and expensive) Samsung B-die chips are still 8 Gbit.

Anyway can't see quad core not being major bottleneck for 64GB needing amount of data handling.

 

[MissChief]

16GB is usually enough for most purposes although there are some cases where 32GB can be useful. 64GB is very much niche cases of 4K video editing or manipulating huge graphics files. What is the rest of your spec and actual usage?

 

[turbot1984]

Anyway can't see quad core not being major bottleneck for 64GB needing amount of data handling.

Yeah was wondering that. Are you running really RAM hungry software @PeN ?
I swapped out 16GB of Corsair LPX 3000 for 32GB of LPX 3600 and noticed zero real difference? That was on a Hero Z170/6700K.

 

[PeN]

All the 16GB sticks I can see on the QVL are double sided, so that's probably the main thing to watch. I'm not sure if Corsair Dominator is one of those models (you don't say what speed, or version).

Prior to 10th gen, the compatibility with single sided 16GB sticks (2GB chips) is consistently dubious. As far as I know, Corsair don't guarantee that different versions will be consistent and they don't have a compatibility guarantee.

Kingston's memory checker only recommends double sided 16GB sticks for Z170.

I looked at the BIOS for your board and though Asus says it improve memory compatibility in the latest BIOS, they don't say what kind of compatibility.

ok cool so just double sided, was wanting to get the best ram i could as when it comes to upgrade time i can salvage

RAM = Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Quad Channel Kit (CMD16GX4M4B3000C15)
CPU = Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151

 

[PeN]

Yeah was wondering that. Are you running really RAM hungry software @PeN ?
I swapped out 16GB of Corsair LPX 3000 for 32GB of LPX 3600 and noticed zero real difference? That was on a Hero Z170/6700K.

I run Daedalus which is a full node RAM hungry crypto software, and various other things + work software... tbh i was just expecting that if i 4x'd the ram i'd get a much better response... but you could be right i might not notice much of a difference.

Memory runs at about 50% when a browser is open, then if i open Daedalus it jumps to 90-100% usage, cpu usually never breaks a sweat above 50%

 

[Wing-Man]

What speed is your ram

 

[Tetras]

ok cool so just double sided, was wanting to get the best ram i could as when it comes to upgrade time i can salvage

RAM = Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Quad Channel Kit (CMD16GX4M4B3000C15)
CPU = Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151

I think it's safer, yeah, but you could try asking Asus what those "improved dram compatibility" bios updates actually do and if newer 16Gbit ram works in your board.