Upgrade for my PC

[David Kushnir]

Well my PC is quite old and I have started working SO I have a little amount of money so I thought why shouldent I upgrade my PC? so I thought to get some little components such as 2x4 ram 1600 MHz which is a upgrade from my old 2x2 ram 1333 MHz and to get a SSD drive.

My big quastion here is should I get the ram? becuse as I heard 2x2 ram is quite enough for gaming but what I have seen that all of my 4 gig of ram are in use while I play games so idk basicly please help me out here.


Thank you for your time and sorry for my poor English.

(My PC specs:GeForce GTX 750 TI, Intel COre I5 2400 3.1 GHz, 4GB Ram, Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate.)

(The components that I wish to buy----> RAM: http://en.ksp.co.il/?select=.1038..392..166..103..786.&list=1&sort=2&glist=0&uin=21134&txt_search=&buy=&minprice=0&maxprice=0#

------> SSD : http://en.ksp.co.il/?select=&list=3&sort=2&glist=0&uin=20108&txt_search=SSD&buy=&minprice=0&maxprice=0&store=tverya

 

[MeteorsRaining]

GPU is the fundamental requirement for gaming. Even with 4GB RAM you can play games decently but they should be DDR3. Getting a better GPU will really help your rig. Anyways, yes you should upgrade your RAM to 8 GB only if they're DDR3. Also, please specify your complete build with CPU, GPU, MoBo, RAM-DDR2 or DDR3 so we can help you better.
SSD drive is a good choice for upgrade too, get it. Also tell your budget for upgrading.

 

[legend001523]

8gb of 1600mhz are recommended for gaming pc

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Just saw your edited post, your GPU is good enough and RAM is good too. Yes you should upgrade to get full advantage out of your rig. Btw the RAM you suggested is not good as its 1600MHz/CL11. Try getting CL9 or lower.
And that SSD is very good go for it!

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Get this RAM instead: http://en.ksp.co.il/?uin=14965

 

[David Kushnir]

Get this RAM instead: http://en.ksp.co.il/?uin=14965

How the upgraded RAM will help my PC run games better, or be better over all?

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Basically in RAM, MHz/CL ratio matters where bigger is better.
So for the one you wanted to buy, its 1600/11=~145 reports.
The RAM I suggested, 1600/9=~177 reports.
This would make a difference in both gaming and rendering. It'd be a better RAM overall.

 

[David Kushnir]

Basically in RAM, MHz/CL ratio matters where bigger is better.
So for the one you wanted to buy, its 1600/11=~145 reports.
The RAM I suggested, 1600/9=~177 reports.
This would make a difference in both gaming and rendering. It'd be a better RAM overall.

Erm so basicly it will improve my gaming experience by having less drops(FPS drops) or somthing like that?
(BTW) How do I check which mother board am I using becuse I heard there are some mother boards that do not support 1600 MHz.

 

[legend001523]

no, not at all

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Having CL that high (CL11) negates most of the speed advantage. The lower the CAS Latency or CL for short, the better the RAM. The higher the frequency the better the RAM.

BUT having RAM with high frequency and high latency is not beneficial, there needs to be a balance somewhere depending on the usage you have.

For example a good balance for an regular gaming system is 1600/1866 CAS 9 RAM.

The real benefits are not seen while gaming, but rather felt by the CPU. A 1600/9 RAM is roughly equal to a 1866/10 RAM. So, if you want a 1600Mhz memory, get atleast 9CL.

Your 1600/11 will work similar to 1333/9 RAM. But speed is a factor while gaming. So better get 1600MHz/CL9.

 

[David Kushnir]

Having CL that high (CL11) negates most of the speed advantage. The lower the CAS Latency or CL for short, the better the RAM. The higher the frequency the better the RAM.

BUT having RAM with high frequency and high latency is not beneficial, there needs to be a balance somewhere depending on the usage you have.

For example a good balance for an regular gaming system is 1600/1866 CAS 9 RAM.

The real benefits are not seen while gaming, but rather felt by the CPU. A 1600/9 RAM is roughly equal to a 1866/10 RAM. So, if you want a 1600Mhz memory, get atleast 9CL.

Your 1600/11 will work similar to 1333/9 RAM. But speed is a factor while gaming. So better get 1600MHz/CL9.

Well my problem here is that the ram costs quite allot for something that wont do a big change on my PC so dose it worth the money? it is really costs allot and I would not like to pay extra money for something that will help me not that much... if you know what I mean...

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Ok I understand, if its really expensive then there's one factor which the RAM I suggested would not fulfil, value for money. Go ahead with the ones you decided on, there's minimal difference and so its ok to get CL11 if the price difference is really a deciding factor.

 

[David Kushnir]

Ok I understand, if its really expensive then there's one factor which the RAM I suggested would not fulfil, value for money. Go ahead with the ones you decided on, there's minimal difference and so its ok to get CL11 if the price difference is really a deciding factor.

No, I ment in total that the RAM costs allot not that the one you showed me costs allot more it's that the RAM it slef costs quite allot and idk if it even worth the money to upgrade my ram if it wont do a big change to my system from my old ram to the new one.

 

[MeteorsRaining]

I'd say get a similar pair of 2X2GB memory as you currently have in your build. That'd suffice both the concerns, performance and cost.