4gb 1066 RAM vs 16gb 667MHz RAM for gaming?

[Buddy710]

Hello. I'm running Win8 Pro, but my Motherboard can only take 16gb across 4 slots, and only ddr2.

Right now I have 2x2gb 1066 240pin ddr2 (as well as the GB from my gtx750ti).

I usually run several things at once, such as pandora and usually a dozen chrome tabs, system monitors etc. and using Moo0 system monitor I can see that memory is now my bottleneck when gaming.

I'm wondering if it would be better to get 2x2gb more of the 1066 ram to make 8gb with what I have, or instead change it all out for 16gb of slower 667MHz ram. What do you think? Thanks.

 

[werberman]

DDR2? How old is this system? 😵 I'm on DDR4...
Need to know the rest of your system specs to give an accurate answer

 

[prit87]

Hello. I'm running Win8 Pro, but my Motherboard can only take 16gb across 4 slots, and only ddr2.

Right now I have 2x2gb 1066 240pin ddr2 (as well as the GB from my gtx750ti).

I usually run several things at once, such as pandora and usually a dozen chrome tabs, system monitors etc. and using Moo0 system monitor I can see that memory is now my bottleneck when gaming.

I'm wondering if it would be better to get 2x2gb more of the 1066 ram to make 8gb with what I have, or instead change it all out for 16gb of slower 667MHz ram. What do you think? Thanks.

Generally for current games max of 8 gb is required and most of the people preffer 1600 mhz but if you are using DDR2 then you must have a really old system with old processor so give us your complete system specification so than we can help.

 

[Buddy710]

speccy -
Summary
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

CPU
AMD Athlon II X3 450 43 °C
Rana 45nm Technology

RAM
4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 533MHz (5-7-7-24)

Motherboard
MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD 790XT-G45 (MS-7388) (CPU 1) 60 °C

Graphics
LG TV (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (EVGA) 34 °C

Storage
279GB Western Digital WDC WD3000BLFS-01YBU0 ATA Device (SATA) 41 °C
149GB Seagate ST3160812AS ATA Device (SATA) 38 °C
111GB OCZ-AGILITY3 ATA Device (SSD) 30 °C
1397GB Seagate ST31500341AS ATA Device (SATA) 44 °C

Optical Drives
ASUS DRW-24B1ST c ATA Device

Audio
Logitech G930 Headset

motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130265R

RAM I have at the moment: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104072

 

[InvalidError]

Just threw the 9600gt back in there to see if the 1gb of memory would help, but it looks like Titanfall won't run with both gpu's in so out it goes.

Graphics memory does not stack with GPU memory or even between GPUs either - even in SLI/CF setups, each GPU only has access to its local RAM and mostly holds a duplicate set of the same data as all other cards in the SLI/CF setup.

 

[prit87]

speccy -
Summary
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

CPU
AMD Athlon II X3 450 43 °C
Rana 45nm Technology

RAM
4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 533MHz (5-7-7-24)

Motherboard
MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD 790XT-G45 (MS-7388) (CPU 1) 60 °C

Graphics
LG TV (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (EVGA) 34 °C

Storage
279GB Western Digital WDC WD3000BLFS-01YBU0 ATA Device (SATA) 41 °C
149GB Seagate ST3160812AS ATA Device (SATA) 38 °C
111GB OCZ-AGILITY3 ATA Device (SSD) 30 °C
1397GB Seagate ST31500341AS ATA Device (SATA) 44 °C

Optical Drives
ASUS DRW-24B1ST c ATA Device

Audio
Logitech G930 Headset

motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130265R

RAM I have at the moment: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104072

I would not recommend to add another ddr 2 ram in this build upgrade your CPU,motherboard and RAM because i am sure you are getting some bottle necking using that GPU with your CPU.