upgrade?

--sam-- · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:01

I don't know if I should or not. I'm not an expert on ram :l, atm I'm using 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz, I use my pc to game and to listen to music. what do you think?

cmndr_andi · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:03

For those uses 4GB of DDR3 RAM should be plenty, more than likely it will your other components (graphics card, CPU and mechanical hard drive) holding things back.

May I ask what your full PC spec is?

--sam-- · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:05

i5 2500k, radeon 6870, windows 7 64 bit. i know these are good, it's just my knowledge on memory that is lacking so I'm not sure how good it is.

cmndr_andi · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:11

Yup, good system with some decent RAM.

Your RAM is currently running at 1333MHz, which is great and any extra MHz on top of this won't really add much extra performance (since the sandy memory controller is really very efficient). However, if you paid of 1600MHz RAM or faster then you may want to apply the rated RAM settings in the BIOS.

As for 4GB being enough, for general tasks it is usually plenty. Also, most games are only 32 bit - so they can't make use of more than 4GB RAM.

--sam-- · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:14

ok, thanks for the info