Time to replace slow ram?

lionger

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Hello all, first time posting in these great forums.

Now, heres my problem. I have built a custom PC with a mix of old and new parts and im wonder if these old RAM will work with gaming at all? ( I play Battlefield Bad Company 2, Street fighter 4 PC, Final Fantasy 14 PC, and all of Valve's games, and along with some Total War Series) *I can't run FF14 at above 30 FPS even with the lowest settings* Maybe RAM is bottlenecking my system?

I've ask several of my buddies and they said to buy some new ram to test it out; they recommend me this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226113

What do you guys think?

My Rig;
Motherboard: GA-MA785GT-UD3H (fully updated BIOS)
GFX: XFX Radeon 5770 1GIG
OS: Win7 Pro 64bit
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
RAM: (pic below)

cpuzMEMORY.png


 
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Hello and welcome to the forums :).

Your RAM is completely fine. Also the RAM you linked to is no better, obviously your friends don't know what they're talking about.

Did you install all your drivers and your graphics card driver especially?
Is it the same in other games?
Are you on a relatively new OS install with anti virus?

Start thinking about what else it could be because it is not your RAM in anyway.

Hope that helps.

[EDIT]
Also check your CPU temps to make sure they're in spec.

Wolygon

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Hello and welcome to the forums :).

Your RAM is completely fine. Also the RAM you linked to is no better, obviously your friends don't know what they're talking about.

Did you install all your drivers and your graphics card driver especially?
Is it the same in other games?
Are you on a relatively new OS install with anti virus?

Start thinking about what else it could be because it is not your RAM in anyway.

Hope that helps.

[EDIT]
Also check your CPU temps to make sure they're in spec.
 
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