Should I stay with 2x 16gb of ram (32gb) or go to 4x 16gb of ram (64gb)?

[Skalisty]

Hey all,

I recently got a new pc with 32gb of ram (2x16gb sticks) and I wanted to go to 64gb. I've got 2 more duplicate sticks of the same ram on its way however I've done more research and it seems that this might cause issues.

I'm not very good with computers so I was wondering if its worth installing these new ram sticks and having 64gb of ram total made up of 4, 16gb sticks or return the ram sticks upon arrival and stay with the 2 stick method? Basically, can my PC handle this ram configuration or will I be bottle necked and or will this affect the existing performance of my pc.


PC Specs: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 with 32gb of corsair vengeance RGB DDR5 6000mhz ram (2x16gb) with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8 core processor.

Thanks for.any help with this

 

[TonyCarter]

Do you have a specific purpose for this extra RAM? If not, it's not going to speed up anything.

But yes, you are correct that 4 sticks of fast RAM is not very stable on AM5 motherboards...and some people have had to go as low as 3200-4800MHz to get all sticks to work.

If you REALLY NEED 64GB or more, then you'll have to fit 2x32GB 6000MHz sticks.

 

[ubuysa]

Open Task Manager, click the performance tab, then click the Memory icon. Make sure the window is large enough to display everything - including the numbers at the bottom left.

Now open up all the apps you use at the same time, ensure that these apps are as busy as you can every make them. The idea here is to get your common mix of apps using all the RAM they need to use. Open even more apps if you like, make the PC as busy as it every is.

Now bring the Task Manager widow to the front and take a screenshot of that Task Manager display and post it here. From those numbers we'll be able to tell you whether more RAM will make any difference to your performance.