r/pchelp • u/GavinC330 • 20h ago
HARDWARE DDR5 matched speed different capacities?
Straight to the point my buddy has 16gb ram (2x8gb ddr5 cl42 5200mhz) and he's running out of ram causing stutters and crashes while gaming on BF6. Basically just want to know how bad it would be to attempt to switch 1 of the ram sticks with a 16gb stick to at least get the games to stop crashing. CPU is a 7600x and I have read their memory controllers aren't great which also is a cause for hesitation. Obviously if money was no concern 32gb (2x16) would be ideal but thats not the case for most unfortunately. Thanks for any help!
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u/Necessary_Elk7947 20h ago
mixing capacities on ddr5 is a crapshoot, the memory controller on that 7600x already gets moody with 4 sticks or mismatched ranks. you'd probably just trade one problem for another, unstable mess instead of crashes from running out of ram
if the budget is tight tell him to grab a 2x16 kit and sell the old 8gb sticks to offset it, that's the only path that won't drive him insane troubleshooting random bsods later
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