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Not really. Performance differences between 1333 and 1600 are so minimal as to be unnoticeable except on synthetic benchmarks, and even then it's slight. You might however extend the life of your hardware as you would be running less voltage through the memory controller with two 4GB sticks than with four 2GB sticks. Easier on the memory controller and related hardware. Overall though, unless you are running very high end applications or VM's and move to 16GB (And only if the applications you are running actually need the additional memory, which in most cases they don't) would you see any benefit.
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Not really. Performance differences between 1333 and 1600 are so minimal as to be unnoticeable except on synthetic benchmarks, and even then it's slight. You might however extend the life of your hardware as you would be running less voltage through the memory controller with two 4GB sticks than with four 2GB sticks. Easier on the memory controller and related hardware. Overall though, unless you are running very high end applications or VM's and move to 16GB (And only if the applications you are running actually need the additional memory, which in most cases they don't) would you see any benefit.
 
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You would only see a performance benefit if you're running applications that actually need the additional RAM.

Try this, when running your most demanding applications, go into administrative tools and look at the memory tab on resource monitor. If your RAM isn't maxed out, you're not going to see any improvement by adding more.
 
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Like I said, none, unless you're running out of resources now. You might see SOME minor benefit by moving to faster RAM if your CPU and motherboard support it, but it probably won't be worth the investment. What is the model of your processor and motherboard. Motherboard model should be printed right on the board itself.
 
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Thanks, I understand that. I was answering on the basis that he was editing. I assumed video/photo editing which would benefit from 16 gigs in many cases.....right?

 
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I have a intel i7 4790k CPU and my motherboard will be a MSI Z97-Gaming 5 LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard I had to RMA my gigabyte ga-z97x-gaming 3 lga 1150 z97 because of two faulty ram slots.
 
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Yes, in some cases. It really depends on what applications, to what degree and how many simultaneous resource loads there will be. Like I said, you would need to take a look at your current memory usage while running your typical application load or even your highest probable load.
 
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For a 4790k and a Z97 board of that caliber, I would never, unlike many older recommendations, run a 1333 or 1600mhz module. 1866 to 2133mhz would be the range I'd want to install, and probably, for high end applications, 8-16GB depending on if I was running serious enough loads to warrant 16GB.

I always recommend using, according to what you can afford, the fastest supported module with the lowest latency and the highest amount you can install that makes any sense according to your probable usage. If you will be running high end video or audio applications, simultaneously streaming ANYTHING, or using several high end apps simultaneously, two 8GB modules would be recommended.

You should be able to easily run two 8GB 1866 or 2133mhz modules on that board with that cpu. The fact that the boards specs say "OC" is misleading. It simply means you need to enable the modules XMP profile in the bios before it will run at speeds beyond 1600mhz. The gaming 5 actually supports all the way up to 3300mhz modules as does the CPU. Not much to be gained beyond 2400mhz though.
 
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While that is true that will in the users case only give an idea of their current usage. Windows will limit the amount of memory it will use when it starts reaching the limit of your total physical memory. This will cause a sometimes very noticeable slowdown as it will remove cached data from memory and focus on only holding data for applications themselves. On systems with more memory than the user needs it will use a large amount of memory for caching commonly used data and data it believes you will use soon. This won't show on a system that is near its memory limits.

Basically even if it may look like you don't need more memory that may not necessarily be true. On a 4GB system if it is showing a usage of >2.5GB in the task manager you probably could benefit from more memory. Although honestly I've seen mom and pop computers that use more than 4GB during daily usage...
 
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Those cases are rare and usually reserved for units that have integrated shared graphics only. There are very few applications that have any advantage to using over 8GB of RAM until you get into professional graphics suites, 3D rendering, CAD, large RAW audio editing or VM's.
 
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