Theoretical upgrade for ancient pc

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I am still using an overclocked bundle I bought from Overclockers in 2013. Never thought I'd have the same machine for more than 10 years.
It's been rock solid this whole time and I have never really messed with it. I just set it up and have been using it ever since, the only thing I did was install an upgraded gfx card about 6 years ago.
It's a 1070ti and I can still play most games at 60fps on an ultra-widescreen monitor which does me since I'm a casual gamer and not really bothered anymore.

I searched through old emails and found the spec.

The machine is the following:

£300.66 x 1 - "Quasar 240i" Intel Core i5 4670K @ 4.4GHz Overclocked Haswell Gaming PC Bundle
£66.66 x 1 - Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gbs Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW)
£41.66 x 1 - Akasa Raptor Gaming Case - Black
£54.16 x 1 - XFX Pro 650W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

It has 8 GB 1600mz DDR3 and the motherboard is a Gigabyte Z87-D3HP-CF.

I have never bothered to change anything for fear of messing up the overclocking settings that were set up in the Bios when I got it.

Like I say it's been really stable this whole time but I am now starting to notice some issues with certain apps running out of memory and creating large swap files on the disk.

I was thinking I could perhaps just upgrade the RAM to 32GB by getting some used DDR off eBay or something?

But I noticed that there are settings in the bios for RAM already that I don't really understand, see this screenshot it says memory upgrade.

Was this added by overclockers?

https://imageupload.io/ib/JxAXlQ9idfbxtZz_1699626308.jpg

Can I just swap out the RAM and it won't affect my overclocked settings? Also, what is the fastest DDR 3 RAM my motherboard can take?

Here are some other screenshots of the bios:


Also, I know I can upgrade the CPU to an i7-4790K and it basically the same chip just with hyper threading. Would this make much difference and could I just swap it out without messing up the overclocked settings already set?

I probably won't change the CPU, just wandering in theory.


I know I would be much better getting a whole new setup but I am in my 40s now and will probably just get a decent modern laptop next year. My son is going to build a budget gaming pc for himself which I'll ask about in a different thread.
 
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yeah I am confused about what RAM it actually supports some websites say up to 2933MHz DDR3 Others 1600mhz. I can get a pair of of 8 gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz = PC3-12800 cl10 for like £22 off ebay. But whats the point in that if it can do 2933MHz
 
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So it looks like if I buy say some Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz and just load the xmp on the motherboard ill get maximum performance out of it, is that correct?

The question now becomes will getting 32 over 16gb make much of a difference?
 
Thanks for your help. Seems like not many people are interested. Ill probably just pick 16gb of vengeance and see if it makes any difference
 
In theory what would be the most powerful graphics card I could install in this system before the current hardware would become too much of a bottle kneck that it wouldn't be worth bothering? Currently have 1070ti
 
Tetras said:
It doesn't sound super exciting, but it is still double the memory of what you have now (or 3x if it works with the existing) :)
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So if i was to just add another 16gb and it works and leave the existing 2 4gb sticks in, it wont slow down the newer memory? They work in matching pairs right so one pair of each.
 
Tetras said:
I can't say, since these things are trial and error and I don't know what 4th gen CPUs are like with their memory speeds/support, as 4 sticks are always more challenging to run than 2.
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In theory is should work if its 1 pair of 1600mghz 8gb and 1 pair of 1600mhz 4gb. Each pair should still run in dual channel mode. Ill try it and see what happens.
 
I ended up getting a pair of corsair vengeance sticks and using them in combination with my existing ram. Got a total of 24gig now and managed to over clock the whole lot from 1600mhz to 1833mhz. They could probably go higher but im not sure about voltages etc. the vengeance sticks are 1.5v but the originals are 1.65v as standard. I do think its possible to adjust each pair individually on my mother board.
 
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