Question Memory upgrade

[nhardinger2003]

So I made the mistake of buying a kit of ram in which I had no clue would stay at inflated prices for what its worth after the craze went down, so now im looking at trying to sell the kit i have and get a different kit to get more ram. The kit I have now is a corsair vengence lpx ddr4 3200 speed 2x4 kit (when i got it it was 118, now its over 200) Im looking to get my system up to at least 16 gigs, so i was curious, would it be a fairly good idea to pull the kit I have now, try to sell it for like 50 bucks, buy probably a ballistix kit of 4x4 2666 memory to get me my 16 gigs? my 3200 kit is running at 2666 anyways so no different in speed. My processor is a ryzen 5 2400g and i have a gtx 1060, so not using the apu part. What speed should i look at to go along with 16 gigs. (sorry this is a confusing mess)

 

[nick_v15]

Why your 3200is running at 2666?Dont you use "xmp"?

 

[Supahos]

Do not get a 4 stick kit as you'll almost be guaranteed not to reach anything above 2933. Ram price have actually fallen recently and 3200cl16 16gb kits can be found under $115 in the USA right now easily

 

[nhardinger2003]

Why your 3200is running at 2666?Dont you use "xmp"?

I use xmp but my system defaults that to 2134, i have to manually set it to 2666 if i want it to work 2933 makes the system crash and boot loop.

 

[nhardinger2003]

Do not get a 4 stick kit as you'll almost be guaranteed not to reach anything above 2933. Ram price have actually fallen recently and 3200cl16 16gb kits can be found under $115 in the USA right now easily

What would you recommend to look at then? Like i said my kit i have now is over 200 and i dont feel 8 gigs of 3200 is worth 200 when i could but a whole new kit for less than that with more capacity. I was thinking either that or ill just get 2 sticks of 2x8. I was told that if you want 4 ram slots filled you need to buy a 4x4 kit otherwise they may be not exactly timed together or something may be messed up.

 

[nick_v15]

Update your bios.

 

[nhardinger2003]

Update your bios.

Its as up to date as i can get it.

 

[nick_v15]

Sooooo weird.Anyway about your question i woudnt bother.I woud just buy another 2x8 3200 kit when the prices drop.

 

[Karadjgne]

What mobo? Many first gen B350 budget boards only officially supported 2133, same with the A320's. In that case there may be issues with high speed ram over factory supported speeds.

 

[Supahos]

Sell what you have now, buy a 2*8gb kit and enjoy. Definitely the better option long term

 

[nhardinger2003]

					Sooooo weird.Anyway about your question i woudnt bother.I woud just buy another 2x8 3200 kit when the prices drop. The specific kit i have is over 200, it would make more sense.

 

[nhardinger2003]

What mobo? Many first gen B350 budget boards only officially supported 2133, same with the A320's. In that case there may be issues with high speed ram over factory supported speeds.

I have a asrock ab350m pro 4, it can support 3200 supposedly

 

[nhardinger2003]

Sell what you have now, buy a 2*8gb kit and enjoy. Definitely the better option long term

Would it be better for a 2x8 kit or a 4x4 kit to use quad channel. Also what would be a good price to sell the ram at?