Need help picking memory

peterhc

peterhc

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Hi
As in topic I need help picking memory for my system.
So my mobo is Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H, and atm in ruining 8gb 1600MHz ram.
Should I go for 16gb or 32gb, and what speed will be the best for my mobo 1866mhz or 2400mhz. I dont know much about it so I am asking you to help me pick best option.
thanks
Pete
 
16GB v 32GB is going to depend on your usage - most people will not exceed 8GB by any significant amount but some people can easily blow past 16GB.

For best stability you probably won't be getting the higher speeds out of most configurations above 8GB - but often higher rated RAM can be only a tiny bit more expensive than the 1600-1866MHz stuff so worth it for the extra flexibility if the price is close even if you don't end up running it at its top speed. In terms of actual real world performance there are vastly diminishing returns above 1600MHz unless you are running a very high end CPU and/or multi GPU setup (and even then it often isn't a big difference).
 
Reason why I need to upgrade is that I am running out of memory while gaming, The Division and GTA 5 sometime crash, and i get message "windows is runing out of memory"while I game on 980 SLI
 
Think its a "known issue" with GTA V on some systems :S and not necessarily related to how much memory you actually have.

What is your current pagefile configuration?
 
Rroff said:
Think its a "known issue" with GTA V on some systems :S and not necessarily related to how much memory you actually have.

What is your current pagefile configuration?
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+1 on the pagefile.....I had memory issues on The Division with 8gb of memory but when i allowed Windows to control the pagefile size the memory issue went away.
 
A lot of SSD optimisers for some reason set really silly pagefile settings or disable it entirely which can cause issues - either setting it to system managed size or 1024MB initial size and 8192MB or higher max size will give better results (max size depends on your available disc space and usage but 8192MB will normally cover 99% of scenarios - 1024MB minimum is the lowest level that will allow all Windows functionality to work as intended).

In my experimenting I never saw GTA V exceed about 500MB of pagefile use but that is enough to cause problems with bad settings.
 
The game is running fine while i disable SLI, only recently i decided to go sli and thats when problem appeared.
16384 min/max pagefile config
 
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