Question Hello. new to the community with a simple question.

[Hoodooswamp]

Hello. My CPU has a memory Capacity of 8 GB DDR. Does that mean I can not go past 8 GB total?

Thanks.

James.

 

[Obakasama]

CPU is only one determining factor.

What are your system specs and OS?

 

[Hoodooswamp]

AMD FX-6300 3.50 GHz
8 GB DDR3
Chipset AMD 970
CPU TypeFX-6000 Series
CPU SpeedFX-6300 (3.50 GHz)

 

[Hoodooswamp]

And Windows 10 64bit sorry

 

[Hoodooswamp]

Also it has 4 slots for ram on the mother board. (sorry for broken posts, @ work)

 

[geofelt]

A cpu does not define the max memory size, it is the motherboard that does.
What is the make/model of your motherboard?
I have little doubt that you can run at least 16gb which is normally plenty.

 

[Hoodooswamp]

Thank you all for the responses. I will have to get the model # when I get home from work. I do have 4 slots total, and I have 2 sticks of 4gb ram that I will install to give 16 total.

 

[Hoodooswamp]

Added the extra 8 GB, and it worked! Thank you all!