I am going to upgrade my 8gb desktop pc. I have 2 free slots and 2 slots with 2x4gb 2400Mhz. I will buy 2x8gb with 3600 MHz. Should I put them together and have 24gb at 2400Mhz or should I remove the 2x4 in favor of the 3600Mhz.

I’m asking because I read that when you have 2 different ram speeds it will default to the lower one.

Edit: it’s for gaming and I have a Ryzen 3 1200 with a b350m as a motherboard

  • N0VERCL0CKER
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    24 months ago

    depends on if you are commonly cpu limited or not. If you are having performance drops from the cpu not keeping up then go with 16gb 3600Mhz to get a little more performance. If you never are being cpu limited then the extra ram would be better as it will be used for caching to help load times and reduce the chance of fps dips related to loading assets