RAM - 1600Mhz Vs. 2400 Mhz (Multitasking Issue)

Wolfz

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Hey, so I currently have
(Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory) in my computer and I'm considering buying (Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 DRAM 2400MHz C11 Memory Kit). Now I know that the RAM most-likely will not directly affect my framerate in games, but I'm not looking for that from new RAM. I've been having memory issues with my RAM being maxed out while I'm playing a game (i.e. Ark: Survival Evolved, or Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege) and having Google Chrome up in the background for listening to music, watching a live stream, a YouTube video, or whatever else it might be. Is this an issue that can be solved by purchasing faster RAM? I have 16gb of RAM so I assumed I'd be okay to multitask fairly heavily, but I seems I might be wrong.

My Current RAM: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005T63BJM/?tag=pcpapi-20
RAM I am looking to buy: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-16GB-2400MHz-Memory/dp/B00FMRV8I4/ref=sr_1_16?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1464540668&sr=1-16&keywords=ddr3+ram&refinements=p_n_feature_five_browse-bin%3A677429011%2Cp_n_feature_four_browse-bin%3A2253866011

My current setup:
ASRock Extreme3 MOBO
Intel 4770k at 4.4ghz
Gigabyte GTX 780 Rev2.0 GPU
Corsair Vengeance 16gb RAM
Corsair 750W PSU
2x240gb SSD's
1x1TB HDD
1x320GB HDD
 

RCFProd

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He's saying his RAM is being maxed out. I think there is a misunderstanding here. His current set of 16GB RAM is not supposed to be anywhere near to maxing out (or 100% used) and upgrading to 2400Mhz shouldn't be a direct fix to that. I suspect a memory leak.

Or maybe I got it wrong and he wants to upgrade to 32GB effective RAM. Either way, replacing it with new RAM is not the fix.

Link to thread for more info:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3073372/cpu-bottleneck-1070-upgrade.html#18039525