What RAM should I upgrade to?

CBaca · May 26, 2016

I currently have an AMD system. Motherboard is the Asus Sabertooth 990FX first generation, the processor is a Phenom II 965 and my RAM is GSkill 8GB 1333. I want to increase the RAM to 16GB, but I am not sure what speed I should get. I am also planning to upgrade my processor later on to a FX8300. I am starting to do more photoshop and video processing and I have also received the low system memory message while playing games.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Supahos · May 26, 2016

If you're going to do the editing and upgrade to an 8350 I'd go with 2133 MHz ram, it can run slower just fine till u upgrade and the 8350 may or may not run it at 2133 but it's pretty well max speed for an amd processor. 2133 ram is just a couple of bucks more than the cheap stuff anyways

Tradesman1 · May 26, 2016

Supahos :

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+1 might be able to run 16GB with your 965 at 1600 (will need to set the DRAM up manually

CBaca · May 28, 2016

Thanks for the information guys. I think I will be getting 2133 G Skill sticks. Newegg has a good price on them now, they are less than some of the slower speed RAM kits. Will I have to manually set the speed and timings in the bios with the new RAM?

Supahos · May 29, 2016

Been a while since I played with a sabertooth but I believe it has an XML sty settings... may have to tweak it a bit since this will be the absolute max the cpu is capable of

Tradesman1 · May 29, 2016

Believe the ST uses Asus's own DOCP for OCing profiles, same as the Crosshair, enable DOCP, select 2133 and check the timings, they often set them a bit looser than the XMP spec

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