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I have a lot of RAM, 20GB to be precise. However they are not exactly high-end RAMs.Two of them are Kingston 8GB RAMs with 800MHz speed and the other two are some no name brand 2GB RAMs with just 600MHz.

I am having performance problems, even just when using multiple demanding programs. I have slightly overclocked the CPU but that only helped slightly, and only for some things.

I started to suspect that the CPU is fast enough for my needs, but it spends too much time waiting for information to come from the RAM. I am not entirely sure how this is internally handled, but I know that my friends with similar CPUs are not having these problems when running the same games.

So my question is, is there a way to determine that the RAM speed is a bottleneck in the speed of the system? I cannot afford to upgrade my entire system, but I can afford faster RAMs if that would help.

Tomáš Zato
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I believe you are causing your own bottlenecking issues. If you are running two different RAM sticks and one is lower. It will only run at the lowest setting and also where you have two different sizes. Im not 100% but Id say just keep your 2x8's and or upgrade to faster rams sticks.

Chris
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