Novice Ram Upgrade question

MechaGamera

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Hi,

So as stated I'm a novice more or less. I can remove and replace ram,Gpus and once a power supply, beyond that its all alchemy to me. As I can't afford a System upgrade for some time I was thinking of adding more ram as I have a GTX1080

I Currently use a Asus Z97-P (Socket 1150/Z97/DDR3/S-ATA 600ATX) motherboard and
Mushkin Redline 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3, 2400MHZ (PC3-19200) CL10, Frostbyte Dimm Memory.

On Amazon I found the following Memory

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DHA44MK/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3IRU7Q642HWMA

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00MDYURW2/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1F8YGP86NG3IP

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007V9PZFI/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

My questions are these.

Which one of these is best if any?

Can I just place the new ram in parallel in the spare slots with my existing ram to give me 24GB of ram and have it work ok?

Alternatively, if any of these work should I just replace my 8GB with the 16GB and Will it work without adjusting bios or anything?

Thanks in Advance.
 
Solution
is there anything new software that you are planning to use in this pc?

if yes, then you could run them in parallel, you might have to tweak the memory timings to make it work. afaik, z97 has the options to do so.
in terms of speed, gskill trident x is faster (10-12-12-31 vs 11-13-13-31). but your current rams has even faster timings (10-12-12-28)

if no,
use msi afterburner, and watch you mem usage and page faults, if you are hitting the limit of your rams, there is no point upgrade.
you are already running @ 2400, so you don't actually get any improvement at all.

is there anything new software that you are planning to use in this pc?

if yes, then you could run them in parallel, you might have to tweak the memory timings to make it work. afaik, z97 has the options to do so.
in terms of speed, gskill trident x is faster (10-12-12-31 vs 11-13-13-31). but your current rams has even faster timings (10-12-12-28)

if no,
use msi afterburner, and watch you mem usage and page faults, if you are hitting the limit of your rams, there is no point upgrade.
you are already running @ 2400, so you don't actually get any improvement at all.

 
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