Question Quick help with choosing RAM.

[Hudson_G]

First of all, Howdy, and hope everything is going well for everyone. Dark days these are, and we must remain tougher.

I decided to acquire a new friend to my lonely DDR4 8gb RAM, since it's been a while it had companion, so I was about to search some cool RAMs to the job, but I'm clueless on what to choose. The RAM (the one I have) is not the strongest one (I think), it doesn't even have a Model name, all that displays is "DDR4-2133 / PC4-17000 DDR4 SDRAM UDIMM V02D4LF8GB5285282133".

I was wondering and wanted some help to what new memory choose to fill the second case, if I could get some higher mhz than 2133, what model would you prefer to have, why would you choose that and, most importantly, things that I SHOULDN'T DO (if any).

Thanks in advance.

And english is not my main language, but I think I tried nicely.


Edit: in case you may ask:

Mommyboard - ASRock A320M-HD;
Processor - AMD A10 9700.

Gonna ask some upgrades in the Graphics section after here.

 

[Bob.B]

First of all, Howdy, and hope everything is going well for everyone. Dark days these are, and we must remain tougher.

I decided to acquire a new friend to my lonely DDR4 8gb RAM, since it's been a while it had companion, so I was about to search some cool RAMs to the job, but I'm clueless on what to choose. The RAM (the one I have) is not the strongest one (I think), it doesn't even have a Model name, all that displays is "DDR4-2133 / PC4-17000 DDR4 SDRAM UDIMM V02D4LF8GB5285282133".

I was wondering and wanted some help to what new memory choose to fill the second case, if I could get some higher mhz than 2133, what model would you prefer to have, why would you choose that and, most importantly, things that I SHOULDN'T DO (if any).

Thanks in advance.

And english is not my main language, but I think I tried nicely.


Edit: in case you may ask:

Mommyboard - ASRock A320M-HD;
Processor - AMD A10 9700.

Gonna ask some upgrades in the Graphics section after here.

Go here and run the scanner see what it shows.
Crucial

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

it is never recommended to mix RAM kits.
even when they are the exact same make & model they are not tested and certified together to ensure maximum compatibility.

you may encounter many different types of incompatibility in these situations;
small inconsistencies with data being processed leading to corruption,
inability to boot outright,
crashes and/or repeated errors in software, etc...

you can test different modules together with extensive memory and data processing tests but you would never know for sure how long they actually retain any compatibility.

my recommendation would be to be sell the existing stick and buy a new set of low latency 3200MT/s RAM.
such as: G.Skill's