Will I notice any difference in upgrading to 16gb of old ram?

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TMalley5

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Hi Im wondering if I would notice much difference buying another 8gb (16gb total) of ripjaws 1600mhz ram?

Would games be in any way affected by the upgrade?

Would it be better to buy more up to date ram and scrap my current ram all together?

My pc specs are:

i7 4790k
rx 480 8gb (Im upgrading to a 1080 over christmas if that matters)
MSI z97 gaming 7
EVGA supernova 750w psu
1TB HDD
no SSD

 
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The performance difference between 8 and 16gb is fairly minor. If you keep the background tasks closed, use sysinternals autoruns to check bootup programs, run malwarebytes anti-malware, cleanup temp files (in %temp% and %windir%\temp) and do disk maint. (chkdisk /f/r and defrag once a month) then decide if you want more ram.
If you still...
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austintx1985

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The problem with buying another pack of RAM is that you are never guaranteed that the new RAM will play nice with the old stuff. It is always better to buy everything at one time as a set. Hope this helps.
 
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The performance difference between 8 and 16gb is fairly minor. If you keep the background tasks closed, use sysinternals autoruns to check bootup programs, run malwarebytes anti-malware, cleanup temp files (in %temp% and %windir%\temp) and do disk maint. (chkdisk /f/r and defrag once a month) then decide if you want more ram.
If you still want more ram, then make sure the timings match and you'll be fine. Intel CPUs are not as sensitive to ram as Ryzen, so it is not that big a deal to pop a 2nd stick in later. But don't assume that the same brand will be the same ram. Check what model you have and what timings it has and get one that matches.
The performance bump to going to faster ram than you have won't be much. Only measurable in benchmarks.
 
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Upgrading the video card does not matter for the amount of memory.
If your close to running out of memory with the games you play then upgrading to 16gb could help some.
1600 memory is still fine for gaming.
When adding more memory their a chance it will not work with the other memory even if it's the same memory.
 
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More ram never hurts.
If you are doing any sort of multitasking, then 16gb is good.
But, beware of adding ram.
Ram is sold in kits for a reason.
A motherboard must manage all the ram using the same specs of voltage, cas and speed.
Ram from the same vendor and part number can be made up of differing manufacturing components over time.
Some motherboards can be very sensitive to this.
This is more difficult when 4 sticks are involved.
That is why ram vendors will NOT support ram that is not bought in one kit.
It is safer to get what you need in one kit.
But, it is a bit more expensive because of the added matching of all the sticks to insure compatibility.

My suggestion is to buy a compatible 2 x 8gb ram kit that closely matches what you now have as to speed, voltage, and cas timings.
Then, once that is working, try adding your old 8gb of ram.
You may need to up the ram voltage in the bios a touch to get it to work.

If all runs well, great, you now have 24gb.
If not, keep the old ram as a spare or sell it.
You will then
 
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