I’ve been looking to upgrade to something like 64gb of RAM however I’m still using DDR4. So future-proofing to a new motherboard and CPU with DDR5 sounds like a logical plan. However I’m not even sure if that would be worth it. I figure you guys would have a better idea of what I should look at upgrading.
CPU: Intel i7-8700k
Motherboard: ASRock Z390
RAM: 16gb DDR4 3200mhz
GPU: RX 6700XT
Let me know if I’m missing any specs, it’s been years since I last looked at my hardware.
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Why do you want 64 gigs of ram? Are you actually using it for work related things? 32 is largely plenty for most “normal” people. Do you have 2 or 4 ram slots? And how many sticks currently? You could add another 16 gigs pretty cheaply. Or if you have two slots even 32 for cheap. Dual channel memory works fine with weird combos like that.
I’d personally upgrade CPU/RAM/Mobo if you find a good deal. Im also a chronic multi tasker and DESPISE CPU bottlenecks. Micro center has some good combos and I think you can upgrade the ram on them. I think their 7600x3D combo is pretty good and should be a nice upgrade over the 8700k. Or even the 7800x3D sometimes. It all depends on how much you want to spend.
Some minecraft modpacks can take over 32 gigs of ram. And it gets even worse if you are hosting the server at the same time
Honestly I find myself in your text a bit so perhaps I’m projecting:
If it’s purely for specs than the other poster is right. You won’t get bottlenecked with RAM even at 32GB. So if you’re being capped now and short on cash just upgr to 32GB and future proof when the future is closer around the corner.
But to me it sounds like you might just want s complete upgrade and are now looking for a reason (that’s the potential projection part :p). If that’s the case then check your budget and go for it - but don’t try to sugar coat it: the reasonable path is to do the smallest upgrade step possible that fullfils your needs!
What’s your HDD/ SSD config? Also what is currently slow/ the perceived pain points?
Why do you want to upgrade?
Do you actually need the ram upgrade? Cause if not you might as well wait until you upgrade to a new platform. I went from 16gb to 32gb of ram purely because i still had my old ram laying around from a previous build and decided to throw it in (yeah i know mixed ram is bad and all but i haven’t had any problems so far and i didn’t have to sacrifice that much mhz for it) and if i’m being honest, so far i haven’t felt like i needed 32gb at all. The most i’ve probably done with it is allocate more ram to my vm, which also doesn’t really need that much for my usecase either.
