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I am upgrading my Sabertooth 990fx r2.0 from amd multi core phenom II 16gb 1600 kingston hyper x to amd 8320e processor to 32gb of kingston fury hyper x. Do I need to update my bios in order to swap them out?
 
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No you shouldnt have to, however with new ram configurations you usually have to reset the CMOS, look in your motherboards manual for how to do so. One suggestion, you should go with a regular 8320 rather than the "e" skew because the e is lower powered and less performance, and they are almost the same price. Also is 32gb really nessecary. With that harware i wouldnt think you are doing massive ammounts of video editing or anything. i doubt you even peak 10gb usage all that often. Remember, as long as you arent using all your ram, adding more will not give more performance. Open task manager to see how much ram you use.
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No you shouldnt have to, however with new ram configurations you usually have to reset the CMOS, look in your motherboards manual for how to do so. One suggestion, you should go with a regular 8320 rather than the "e" skew because the e is lower powered and less performance, and they are almost the same price. Also is 32gb really nessecary. With that harware i wouldnt think you are doing massive ammounts of video editing or anything. i doubt you even peak 10gb usage all that often. Remember, as long as you arent using all your ram, adding more will not give more performance. Open task manager to see how much ram you use.
 
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It's a good idea to update whenever you put in new hardware, but you'd have to be doing some serious stuff to need 32gb, and there's no way you're going to get any return out of the extra RAM with a phenom II. Perhaps the bottleneck that's causing you to want to have more RAM is elsewhere?
 
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I do massive amounts of editing that is the reason for the upgrade.
 
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I do a massive amount of video editing, thank you for taking the time to respond, you confirmed what I thought.
 
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thank you for the response
 
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Thank you for responding I do a lot of editing and the old phenom II was not cutting it with just the 16gb of ram.

 
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