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Looking to upgrade – Just what to replace? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

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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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[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.