Memory upgrade.

[Orford]

This is my currant system and looking to upgrade to 8gb of ram. What would be the best option. My CPU is over clocked to 3.8ghz a I've been told the overclock may get unstable if I use all 4ram slots.

So question.

2 more sticks of 2gb or 2 sticks of 4gb.

Also can you spec me which ram to choose as I have no clue with the tri, quad, dual channel. I'm not sure if dual/quad will do or I need to find strictly dual channel.

Thanks, spec below.

Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail + Napoleon Total War

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 CF 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Asus P7P55D-E Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9)

Intel 80gb SSD x-25 m.

 

[reddev85]

If possible I'd definitely go for 2x4GB so you will have more slots available should you ever need more RAM again

And yes, overclocks can become slightly more difficult to achieve when you run with 4 sticks instead of 2, but not to a huge degree in my experience.

Quad channel wont apply to you since its really only for X79 boards.

Your motherboard is a dual channel board, so I'd suggest pretty much the same RAM you have now, only an 8GB kit.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

You could even keep the RAM you have in the system, and run these two with it, for 12GB in total. Then if you ever do need more RAM, swap out the 2GB sticks for 4GB sticks.