350€-500€ for a completely new system (except ssd, GPU and psu) I CANNOT AFFORD. a 35€ small ram upgrade (the 4th stick) I could afford without a problem. Please refrain from telling me my cpu or ram is old/ bad/slow. So that's what I want to know: will I get better FPS in games by adding another stick or not? or at least that was the case with my previous amd fx system. I would just buy another stick without asking here if I wouldn't have previously heard that populating more ram slots somehow makes the CPU slower. not size because I bearly even use/need 16gb (of all the apps/games I run on my pc, battlefield 1 uses the most ram-ca 11gb) so the 20 or 24gb would be definitely overkill from a size pov). Question is: if i buy another 4 or 8gb to populate the 4th slot will the performance increase? I am referring to the accessing speed of the ram. I know this mainboard only supports dual channel and not tri-or quad channel so I guess I have 8gb that run in single channel( and single channel is bad for some games) Cpuz and all other programs say it runs in Dual Channel memory. I curently have 4gb+4gb (slot 1and 3) +8gb (slot 2) of 1333mhz cl9 g.skill Ram. Mainboard Asus ROG Maximus VII Ranger 5.0ghz +gtx 1070
