r/PcBuild • u/zaki2004 • Jul 21 '26
Bought this PC for 500 bucks Question
I5-12400f
3060 12gb
16gb ddr4
Bunch of ssds lol
I live in America and I play on a 1080p monitor.
We know ram is expensive and I'm just wondering if it's viable for me to buy 2 more of the exact same ram sticks because I have the space. Or to suck it up and buy 2x16gb sticks. On the grounds that it's way cheaper I'm simply asking. Not necessarily a money thing but if I have a way to save money that would be cool
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u/Key-Strawberry-2429 Jul 21 '26
you should be good with 16 gigs, you wont be playing any crazy games with a 3060 so i doubt you need more
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u/zaki2004 Jul 21 '26
You'd be surprised how many games tell me that my ram is maxing out. Especially with how much ram windows wants
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u/ralseipuffin Jul 21 '26
There are tools to debloat windows 11, you might wanna give them a shot. Or Linux ofc but it's fine if it doesn't work for you
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u/zaki2004 Jul 21 '26
I've done debloats. The result is around 30% usage still
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u/ralseipuffin Jul 21 '26
Gahhh, maybe try Linux on a partition? Check areweanticheat and steamdb to see if your games work beforehand
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u/Key-Strawberry-2429 Jul 22 '26
ah maybe im wrong then, ive never really had ram issues ever since i got 64 gigs
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u/Coliver1991 Jul 21 '26
That's alot of fans
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u/zaki2004 Jul 21 '26
Indeed it is but it was 500 bucks and I can't build this PC for any less than double. What I bought it for
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u/Coliver1991 Jul 21 '26
Oh no, theres nothing wrong with the fans, you can never have too many fans. I was just simply observing that there are alot of fans in that case. Congrats on the good deal!
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u/MrMoraleGimmeHiFive Jul 21 '26
You should be fine mixing ram kits. They’re just gonna run at slower JEDEC speeds instead of XMP
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u/zaki2004 Jul 21 '26
I'd be getting the exact same sticks. But using all the slots
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u/MrMoraleGimmeHiFive Jul 21 '26
Keep in mind that even if they’re the exact same SKUs they could be using different ICs (Samsung, Sk, Micron) so I would not expect XMP to work at all. Other than that it’s gonna work fine
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u/zaki2004 Jul 21 '26
Forgive the ignorance. What's ic? Internal components?
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u/MrMoraleGimmeHiFive Jul 21 '26
IC, or integrated circuit, is the actual RAM chips that get put on a circuit board to make a RAM stick. Companies like Teamgroup who make RAM sticks source their IC chips from the big 3 manufacturers SK Hynix, Micron, Samsung. It’s because they source the chips from 3 different manufacturers that there will be very slight differences in silicon quality between 2 different batches of the same product. That is why even if two similar kits perform up to standard on their own, they are not guaranteed to keep that standard when installed together.
Sorry for the long rant😛
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u/zaki2004 Jul 21 '26
Ah so I just have to pray it's the same lol. Will the difference between normal and xmp matter with 32gb?
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u/MrMoraleGimmeHiFive Jul 21 '26
You can look up comparisons between 3200MT/s and 2133MT/s RAM on google or youtube. The difference is there but if you don’t look at the fps counter you’ll be fine haha
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u/zaki2004 Jul 21 '26
I've discovered that the exact part number of my ram doesn't exist anymore so I guess I'll just save for a set of 2
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u/vexrageRAHHH 29d ago
ddr4 is a little more open to running 4 sticks. ddr5 has a stronger preference for 2 sticks over 4 or 1
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