I currently have an 8gb ddr4 3200mhz stick of ram in my pc. If I were to pop another 8gb ddr4 but 2400mhz in there, would doubling up on gb outweigh performance lost from the speed going down to 2400mhz?
I currently have an 8gb ddr4 3200mhz stick of ram in my pc. If I were to pop another 8gb ddr4 but 2400mhz in there, would doubling up on gb outweigh performance lost from the speed going down to 2400mhz?
Part of that is going to depend on what exactly you’re doing with the computer, and how fast the other components are.
If you’re just browsing the internet and want to be able to have more than 5 tabs open before your computer starts stuttering, the extra ram will be far more important than the speed.
If you’re playing games, and your CPU and GPU are really good compared to your ram already, the bottleneck from the ram speed dropping may slow things down rather than speed them up.
Low end acer n50-640 I bought on sale a few years ago that I want to do some light gaming on. i5-12400f (2.5 GHz) and a 4gb GTX 1650. Second noob question, would it be a bad idea to try to overclock the ram? It’s a Timetec brand if that matters.
RAM is the last component you should OC, it is arkane wizardry compared to CPU and GPU overclocking. Even a seemingly stable memory OC can crash at different workloads and when it does it gives seemingly unrelated errors that sends you down in endless rabbit holes.
Bad idea, noted