i have corsair 16gb ddr3 ram worth upgrading ?

chris78

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this is my sytem:-

amd fx8350 @ 4.0ghz (stock)
gigabyte 990fxa ud3
corsair 16gb ddr3 ram (1333mhz)
NVidia gtx 670
xfx 850 watt psu

I know I have 16gb which they say is overkill for games etc, but the ram is very slow. what ram could I upgrade to to make the performance better and is it worth going to 32gb to future proof for games etc?
 
RAM speed makes very little difference in performance when it comes to doing just about anything. A lot of times, 1600MHz RAM is the same price as 1333. Either way, the difference in performance is negligible. 16GB is enough. That's one thing you can upgrade if you determine it is not.

Also, by the time our systems will require more than 16GB of RAM to run games, we'll need to upgrade our CPUs and motherboards as well (probably around 5 years).
 

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