My PC badly needs more RAM and I would appreciate some recomendations

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HI guys, I have had my current PC for about 2 years now and it still has decent specs but it is in need of some upgrades. I have already ordered a GTX 680 to replace the GTX 480(which just died) but it only has 6GB of RAM...yes I know, which is why I need more. I currently have an ASUS P6X58D-E motherboard with 6GB of Corsair XMS3 Memory. I noticed on ASus' website that the motherboard has 6 ports but only supports a max of 24GB of RAM. Is this a hard limit and what would putting more than 24GB of RAM into the machine do?

I am looking at purchasing the 32GB of Corsair XMS3 RAM kit if the machine will suport 32GB but if not (or if you think somerthing else would be better) I would appreciate your recomendation.

 

Relevant specs regarding memroy from the ASus website:

6 x DIMM, Max. 24GB, DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory
Triple Channel Memory Architecture
Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)

 

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What're you doing that you'd need 32G of ram!? Just get 2 x 8Gb sticks and then once you upgrade your motherboard get 2 more. But really, 16Gb is plenty unless your doing some hardcore shit. But for average gaming etc that's more than enough.

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6GB is more then enough for gaming...

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Are you doing cad?

If not 6... hell, even 4 gigs is just fine.

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just get 3 1 gig sticks.... 9 gigs of ram FTW

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8gb is recomended 16 gb is good 32 gb is over kill these are all for dual channel boards and thus are multiples of 2

6gb is min 12gbis recomended 24gb is over kill these are for triple channel boards like yours and thus are multiples of 3

Just get 6 sticks of 4gb 1600 totaling 24gb it will be pleanty.