#Installed another ram but not useable

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drowsy tide
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I have installed another 8gb on my current 8gb, it says that it's installed but cannott use it

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slate vessel
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@drowsy tidepost a few screen shots of your msconfig

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ther may be some thing wrong with it

drowsy tide
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@slate vessel

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also my gpu usage doesnt go above 80%, i read that it should at least be 90-100

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cpu is at 60-70% max

slate vessel
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gpu usage wont be maxed out if you are cpu limited already

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i forgot what gpu you had i think you said gtx 1660 super or ti

drowsy tide
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rx 6600

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with r5 1600

slate vessel
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oh yeah

drowsy tide
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they told me its not a huge bottleneeck

slate vessel
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well, i dont know who agreed with me, but i suggested getting the high refreshrate monitor before the cpu upgrade since you were already getting up to i think 144fps

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the gpu not running 90+% doesnt matter if you dont have the display yet

drowsy tide
slate vessel
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because you havent set xmp for your ram

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you are still running it at 2133 jedec standard minimum speed

drowsy tide
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is my msconfig good or what

drowsy tide
slate vessel
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the msconfig is fine but im kind of thinking you may have a faulty module or something wrong with the motherboard or cpu if it wont allow for the max ram to work

slate vessel
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i dont remember what your original 8GB module was spec'ed

drowsy tide
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its an older ram which i got, i didn't buy a new one

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if i bought a new one i would go 3200mhz 2x8

slate vessel
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ok but what was the original ram spec and what is the new ram?

drowsy tide
slate vessel
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well the older one is probably 2133 then

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since your system defaulted to 2133 when it would possibly have defaulted to 2400-2666 to match the original module

drowsy tide
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well is it better to have 2 with 2133 or 1 with 2666

slate vessel
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neither tbh

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more ram is good but if it's very slow it doesnt help your game performance much except for maybe 1% lows

drowsy tide
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it says 16 but 8 available

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i still dont know why

slate vessel
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yeah, so... because it's an old module, it may be defective

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or your motherboard has an issue with compatibility

drowsy tide
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also

slate vessel
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@drowsy tidedid you ever update your bios to the newest version?

drowsy tide
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i don't even know how to update it

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does this mean this mobo can handle 3200mhz

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since it says overclocked

slate vessel
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your motherboard can likely handle as high as 3600

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it's 2 factors really. cpu and motherboard

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if you had a ryzen 3000 or 5000 cpu you could likely run 2x8 at 3600

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2x16 up to 3200

drowsy tide
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Ryzen 5 1600
A320m-HDV
rx 6600
1x8gb

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these are my specs

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what do you suggest to upgrade except ram

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cpu or mobo first

slate vessel
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you can run 2x8 3200 on that cpu without much issue

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or should be able to

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and if not 3200, 2933 or 3000 should work at the same specs

drowsy tide
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i fell like

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this cpu is limiting my performance by a lot

slate vessel
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that doesnt matter if you havent got your high refreshrate monitor yet

drowsy tide
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yeah

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but i consider doing this, ram-monitor-cpu-mobo

slate vessel
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there is no real point to worrying about not getting 100+fps if your monitor is still only 60hz max

drowsy tide
slate vessel
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a faster cpu will forsure increase performance, but you want to make sure you have a working set of 2 ram modules

slate vessel
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im sure you had the same issue without the "new" old module installed

drowsy tide
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is my mobo a must upgrade if i go with r5 5600

slate vessel
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no

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the 2 upgrades i would do is just the cpu and 2x8GB 3200 ram

drowsy tide
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this is my bad, i should’ve done a whole new pc instead

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but i started buying parts

slate vessel
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upgrading the motherboard means tearing the entire pc apart

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was your current system a prebuilt?

drowsy tide
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i will consider a used cpu since i heard it harldy has issues

slate vessel
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i forgot

drowsy tide
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and then swapped to r5 1600 like 4 years ago

slate vessel
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well if you are going to upgrade the cpu, get a 5600 non x as minimum. if you are considering a 5600g, jsut get a r5 360 since it will probably be cheaper used since it's a previous generation

slate vessel
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there is a small chance you might have bent a pin when installing it

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did you ever do a new windows install?

drowsy tide
drowsy tide
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a whole system?

slate vessel
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can you tell byu looking at the motherboard what it says for the revision number?. it would be something like hdv 1.0 to 4.0

slate vessel
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windows 10 or 11

drowsy tide
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no

drowsy tide
slate vessel
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that doesnt work

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you need to know specifcally from your own motherboard what revision you have because the bios version may be a different file. i need to go look that up

drowsy tide
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what does that have to do with anything

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it says

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rev 4.02

slate vessel
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ok then you should have revision 4.0 of the a320m hdv

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so to update the bios. you need a usb flash drive that is formatted to fat32

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you just place the bios file from the archive file into the drive without any folders

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just drag and drop it from the zip file into the usb drive

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then you reboot and enter bios and go to the bios flashing part of the motherboard

drowsy tide
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what will updating bios do

slate vessel
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it may make the module work by fixing a possible compatibility issue. normally that kind of issue would prevent the system from booting at all

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im trying the easy things you can do since you dont have enough knowledge on this kind of issue

drowsy tide
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ill just buy 2 with 3200 and thats it

slate vessel
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make sure it's a kit with 2x8. dont buy 2 modules individually

zinc cradle
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does your cpu/board even support that speed...

drowsy tide
drowsy tide
drowsy tide
zinc cradle
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why

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im reading this, why

drowsy tide
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good question

zinc cradle
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no why ping me twice

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within 5 seconds also, when you reply quote someone it auto pings them unless you turn that off.

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like markus does for me