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?

  • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.worldOP
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    24 hours ago

    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.

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      23 hours ago

      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.