A Ram question.

[Dreadbeard]

Im looking at buffing up my ram from 4gb up to 8gb of corsair vengeance, how do i know if my pc is able to take that?

 

[Portuguesetechie]

Do u have a desktop? Can you give any more information?

 

[Dreadbeard]

I run a desktop my specs are in my sig, but i run win 7 64bit on a msi xa-gd55 mobo with a gtx 650 ti boost sc with amd phenom ii x4 945cpu.

 

[Portuguesetechie]

Oh right, sorry bout that
Well your Motherboard has 4 DIM slots so u can just buy a 2module ram pack and stick it in, just make sure the power is turned off

 

[spooky2th]

Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600/1866/2133* (OC) DRAM, 32GB Max

You should be able to upgrade to 8GB with no problem. I would suggest getting a 2 x 4GB kit. Lot's of times 2 different kits of the exact same memory will not work together. And manufacturers will not uphold a warranty for that either.

Each kit is tested to make sure the sticks will work together.

 

[Dreadbeard]

Thats what i was going to do, was grab a 2x4 corsair vengeance pack from my local novatech.

 

[Dreadbeard]

Another question, will there be any performance increases in anything at all with more ram?

 

[giantbucket]

depends what programs you're using. find out how much ram is currently being used during your work/play. use task manager for that.

 

[Portuguesetechie]

Well this gen's games will run if u have 8gb of ram, u can have 32gb of ram or 64gb of ram or 1tb of ram and it wont influence u much, if the game only needs 8gb of ram then it will only use 8gb of ram, so going from 4 to 8 might get u an increase but going any further at the moment wont

 

[spooky2th]

Put 1866MHz memory with tight timings (the lower the faster) and there should be some improvement. More memory might help some with stability while gaming too. The best and surest way to improve performance especially with gaming would be to upgrade the GPU.

 

[Dreadbeard]

The GPU is pretty freshly upgraded from an old gtx 550, but i find most games now are going the 8gb way, and i thought that ram can somewhat influence the browsers, and some browser games.

 

[photonboy]

Option#1:
If you can get the EXACT SAME memory then get another identical kit.
Try here: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/memory/

Option#2:
If you can't find the same kit OR the PRICE is excessive, get a 2x4GB kit and sell your current memory (or keep as spare in case you need to RMA current kit).

2x4GB 1866MHz kits:
all RED color: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f314900cl9d8gbxl
mostly black: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f314900cl9d8gbsr

 

[Dreadbeard]

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr3pc3-128001600mhz/cmz8gx3m2a1600c9r.html

Thats what im looking at.

 

[spooky2th]

That Corsair kit is great! Nice tight timings, 9-9-9-24.

 

[Dreadbeard]

Brillient

 

[photonboy]

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr3pc3-128001600mhz/cmz8gx3m2a1600c9r.html

Thats what im looking at.

Sorry for the US links. I get links from the UK, US, Canada and other places for Tomshardware.

 

[Dreadbeard]

They seem to have the exact same specs as the vengeance ones?

 

[photonboy]

They seem to have the exact same specs as the vengeance ones?

I just changed my post... I'll check the UK link for pcpartspicker...

 

[photonboy]

Here's the proper link.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f314900cl9d8gbxl

Same price, but 1866MHz CAS9.

 

[Dreadbeard]

Ok bud thanks.