upgrading from 8gb to 16 or 32?

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I know everyone is going to say that 8gb is plenty and that I will never use more than that for gaming, or at least when I built my PC last year, thats what everyone told me, which is why I only opted for the 8gb.

Now, my computer is 1 year old, and I assume with all the programs installed within that year, I'm probably using up a little bit of memory on top of what the game itself uses. And while most of my games the 8gb is perfectly fine, I like to play Ark. I used to run it with the normal mode and it would be fine, but a month ago I got a message saying low memory and the game crashed, ever since I have been running it on low memory 4gb mode. In game, I use MSI Afterburner (sometimes), and its saying I'm using 6gb up to 7gb. Now I want to upgrade my ram So I can play the game normally again. The recommended requirements for this game say 16gb, although the game never uses that much, thats just what they recommend.

I want to upgrade mine. Should I go with 16gb, or just say f*** it, and get 32? This cyber Monday, should have some great deals on both, so Whats the road I should take?
 
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1600 is fine, personally I would just go with whatever is on sale from Gskill, for me at the time the sniper 1866 was a good price and matched my build aesthetically (if that...
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okay. So what does this mean:
4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 3200(O.C.)/3100(O.C.)/3000(O.C.)/2933(O.C.)/2800(O.C.)/2666(O.C.)/2500(O.C.)/2400(O.C.)/2200(O.C.)/2133(O.C.)/2000(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1600/1333 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory

Does that mean I can only go as high as 1600 speed without over clocking? I do not plan to overclock anything yet. But I have an i5 4690k

What speed should I buy?
 
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Someone told me that I could do that, but It may not work if its not from the same kit, and since eventually I wanna build another computer for my girlfriend from my old pc parts, having 8gb ram would be nice to hang on to.
 
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Ok, so then I would recommend a 2x8gb set as RAM runs great in dual channel. Gskill makes high quality RAM and is lifetime warrantied. And as for the speed just grab whatever is supported by your motherboard, typically anything above 1600mhz you may need to enable XMP in the BIOS so the RAM will run at the correct speed.
 
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Yeah I have Gskill ripjaws in right now. Runs great, I think its 1600. My motherboard is asus z-97-a 3.1 USB. The speeds I posted earlier, were what asus said it would run. But based on that what do I buy? just 1600? is that fine?
 
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Yep - there are no guarantees when mixing sets of DRAM, it's a 50/50 crapshoot. With todays prices while 16GB should be good for most, no telling what you may do in the near future. I've been running 32GB on my rigs for a few years now and often pushing upwards of28 or more, so when I built the X99 I went to 64, think it will keep going for a couple years or more
 
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1600 is fine, personally I would just go with whatever is on sale from Gskill, for me at the time the sniper 1866 was a good price and matched my build aesthetically (if that matters).
 
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