RAM suggestions for limited budget

[BillyBoy26]

Dear all,

Happy new year!

I have a limited budget (£50-£100) to upgrade my current rig with new RAM - my setup is:

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor, 3400 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
BaseBoard Product PRIME X370-PRO
GFX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

I currently have 2 sticks of RAM that are fairly dated (from Speccy):

Type Unknown
Size 16384 MBytes
Channels # Dual
DRAM Frequency 1064.1 MHz

I'm just looking to improve my current gaming performance - nothing radical, but something noticeable enough to warrant to new RAM. Do you have any recommendations and lastly would it be compatible with my other hardware?

Thanks so much!

 

[BillyBoy26]

Hi Micky - appreciate the prompt reply! Here's an output from CPU-Z, does this help? (I'd not even thought about changing the setting in the BIOS to allow it to run faster)

SMBus address 0x52
Memory type DDR4
Module format UDIMM
Module Manufacturer(ID) TEAMGROUP Inc. (7F7F7F7FEF000000000000000000)
SDRAM Manufacturer (ID) Micron Technology (2C00000000000000000000000000)
Size 8192 MBytes
Max bandwidth DDR4-2400 (1200 MHz)
Max JEDEC DDR4-2133 (1066 MHz)
Part number TEAMGROUP-UD4-2400
Serial number 01043735
Manufacturing date Week 39/Year 17
Nominal Voltage 1.20 Volts
EPP no
XMP yes, rev. 2.0
AMP no
EXPO no

 

[BillyBoy26]

Thanks all - Micky, really appreciate the feedback. Will give it a go with the BIOS settings being changed and will definitely consider an upgrade on the CPU. Can't believe I've been running at a slower speed all these years!

 

[BillyBoy26]

Hi Micky - I've changed the setting in the BIOS, pretty sure it's all saved to run at 2400 mhz now, it was on auto before - is there anything I can do to check it's definitely been set as such? Cheers!