R.A.M ,i need explenation

[pimpanther]

i have 8GB of 1600MHZ kingston black edition. i was going to upgrade to 16gb of 2400 beast kingston but was told there was no point.why is there no point is all id like to know.i do a lot of folding and multitasking and a bit of gaming.I have an I7 devil canyon 4970k windows 7 64 bit XFX psu 750 watt XFX r9 280x BE DD,and Gigabyte sniper M5 micro atx mobo,with rainjitenk triton water cooling for cpu.the only weak bit of my system is the RAM as i have 500GB samsung SSD and 1TB seagate barracuda

 

[Tzn]

in gaming there is no gain in applications there is big difference so you can go for 16 gb if you do more than gaming.

 

[NunoAntunes]

I mean, you can upgrade it, I also have 16gb of ram but for gaming, it's not really worth it, since most games are optimized and need way less than 8gb to run.
I couldn't see your specs but upgrading ram to 16gb should not be a priority, 8 gb suffice.

 

[Guest]

Unless you are doing some program that really is RAM intensive, Java programs for example, it isn't that big of a deal. But looking over what specs you provided, it looks like the next most logical upgrade to your system. Just a heads up though, it won't be life changing unless you have a RAM intensive instance.

 

[JQB45]

RAM is fairly cheap now and i've run into issues unrelated to gaming where more then 8GB of RAM would have been useful.

 

[pimpanther]

just looking at those 2 black sticks 4gb each and they are about the cheapest of the best i guess,. its just seems logical to my mind that twice the mhz twice as much a tighter timings [latency] has got to be better