Can I run this ram on my motherboard

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I am not a tech guy compared to many, and about a year and a half ago I got my first and only gaming PC. Didn't read to much up on the specs and it came with a MSI H110M Pro-D motherboard that sounded just fine to me. Now a year and a half later, with 16gb ram, I am getting issues running games like Battlefront II and Escape From Tarkov on the more intensive maps, and if I look at my usage it seems to cap at around 14 gb used then the game actually crashes usually with a could not allocate memory error. I have no clue what ram I have in now, but I am doubting it is very good quality. I want to upgrade the ram to https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071VCQD83/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 and was wondering if this is compatible with my computer. From what I've read people have mixed answers and if it isn't, what could I do to get more ram out of this motherboard?
 
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Typical approach would be to uninstall programs currently running on machine one by one and check after each if it solved the problem (which would be pointing to recently uninstalled program as source of leak). Tedious process that is not necessarily going to work. Kind of a shortcut is to reinstall Windows, which may help but again does not have to.
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16 Gb is more than enough to play any of those games, unless you use a lot of memory for other processes while gaming. If you end up running out of memory, there is something wrong with your Windows, and increasing the amount of RAM is not going to fix it, at best it will give you more time before it crashes.
Mixing different RAM sticks may or may not work, and while the RAM you listed should work on your motherboard when used alone, there is no guaranty it will work with your current stick.
 
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MSI H110M Pro-D motherboard has only 2 slot of memory. You probably already use both slot (2x8G). If you add 16G into 1 slot, then at best you have 24G memory if it works. Like DRagor said, 16G is more than enough. Open you task manager and see what app use so much memory. In the worst case before buying new part, try install fresh window again.
 
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I have a single 16gb stick in my computer and still have one left over. I can try and see if I can get a screenshot of task manager when the game crashes if you want. It caps out at around 14gb then crashes by saying no more room to allocate textures.
 
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When you boot up window without any app open, typical memory usage should like around 2G. Open task manager to monitor. As you open google, Microsoft edge, games or any other app, check to see usage just suddenly spike up significantly. This is probably one of the way to see what is going on with your system. When you see something not normal, take the screen shot and post it so everyone here can help you out.

 
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I get around 35-40 fps on the outside maps on LOWEST graphics. I have a MSI GTX 970, i7 6700, and the 16gb of ram I was talking about, and none of those items should be lacking on the map, but the 16gb of ram is capping out and crashing and I don't know what kind of ram it is, using CPUz it says it runs at 1064 Dram but I don't know if the guys who made my computer threw in some bad ram that I don't know about, any program I use says "unknown".
 
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I will send screenshots with the task manager stats. https://imgur.com/a/6uenS https://imgur.com/a/qU2Zz
Here, I just crashed and here is a screenshot of the task manager, it peaks above the two lines and the game freezes for a couple seconds and crashes. Look at how it resets discord and turns off chrome. https://imgur.com/a/4l1RZ
 
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So both pictures show your game does not use more then 4 Gb. It has to be something else that takes the RAM - although nothing is shown in the processes tab that would use that much. It could be leak caused by one of the drivers, or a malware operating in background.
 
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How would I go about checking what is causing the issue
 
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Ran an antivirus scan using AVG and no malware or anything came up, is there anything I can do to fix the memory leak?


 
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Typical approach would be to uninstall programs currently running on machine one by one and check after each if it solved the problem (which would be pointing to recently uninstalled program as source of leak). Tedious process that is not necessarily going to work. Kind of a shortcut is to reinstall Windows, which may help but again does not have to.
 
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Reinstalling windows would delete everything on my pc right?
 
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