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Right so I bought this a couple years back for 120$ (my poor wallet) except now it's 200~$ and ram generally seems to be rising in price for whatever reason. TLDR My current 16Gb of ram is a bit stressed at points so all likelyhood I only need prob 8~ GB but IDK how much of a performance impact buying something such as this would have. Or should I just up the ante and buy this?
I'm open to any suggestions for other ram other than the listed.
TLDR Buy cheap crap and suffer possible impact to performance (2nd link) or buy basically same RAM for more (3rd link)
 
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Ok in that case the only option to upgrade RAM is buying exactly same stick and put it in the system. Don't buy any different RAM or you may face compatibility issues. Regarding the RAM speed not not much difference between 2400MHz vs 3200Mhz for your system but don't buy anything with say 2133Mhz or something buy at least 2400. Also latency is important but not have any significant impact on performance so don't worry. Now RAM manufacturer do not recommend putting two different kits one with another which may lead to compatibility issues. But it is not guaranteed to happen so you may try if don't work then it's a bad luck for you.

The performance impact, if you rarely capping 16GB ram then it is better for now not to buy new rams becs...
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Planning on doing, It depends, as I said It caps out rarely but usually when I'm running a bunch of Programs, or if I'm rendering. I stream as well. In most cases the 16GB I have atm doesn't have any issue at all. I just don't know if buying cheaper and ever so slightly slower ram, would actually have any impact on performance, or if it'd be completely negligible.

Specs are : the 16GB of ram that is linked first, I7-7700k, GTX 1080, Z270 PC mate
 
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Ok in that case the only option to upgrade RAM is buying exactly same stick and put it in the system. Don't buy any different RAM or you may face compatibility issues. Regarding the RAM speed not not much difference between 2400MHz vs 3200Mhz for your system but don't buy anything with say 2133Mhz or something buy at least 2400. Also latency is important but not have any significant impact on performance so don't worry. Now RAM manufacturer do not recommend putting two different kits one with another which may lead to compatibility issues. But it is not guaranteed to happen so you may try if don't work then it's a bad luck for you.

The performance impact, if you rarely capping 16GB ram then it is better for now not to buy new rams becs the ram prices have lot of controversy and it seems it may going to dip down in near future. Again you may test if your stream+game play or anything eating all of your available memory or not buy keep an eye on the hwinfo or similar program. If it is staying constantly at 92%+ utilization level which I hardly doubt then stay away from new RAM save money invest on something more useful for you may be a nvme drive.
 
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