“Where can I buy a RAM upgrade for this machine? The single channel 16gb is causing massive fps drops whenever I get into an intense situation in a game. Can I put this ram I have already in it? https://pcpartpicker.com/product/WpH48d”
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Anywhere that sells Ram. I put in corsair vengeance 16GB x 2 3600MHz CL16... Somewhere I read that it supports that but it doesn't. When it first booted up it was set to 2100 Mhz, that was not great and I was pretty annoyed, but through tinkering I found that I can set it to 2666 CL14 dual channel. That is pretty respectable, so don't buy 3600 like I did, save a couple buck and pick up a couple sticks of 2666 and you will be happy. The setting was XMP profile 1 to get that to work. The BIOS is hot garbage on this thing so don't expect really set anything up in it. In fact, DO NOT set it to XMP 2, my system wouldn't even boot to bios after that and I had to reset it with the CMOS battery (under the GPU and a pain to get to) in order to get it back to booting. But yes it can be brought to decent spec with a couple sticks of RAM. The cost of the computer is really 1799 + 65 for a decent cooler + 40 for two fans + 115 for RAM + 120 for a second SSD ---> 2140 or so by the time it is working well. Honestly you could build a sweet home machine to custom spec for that... Oh well, I tried pre built for the first time here and I probably will not do it again, but I am still enjoying this machine.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Technically yes you can, but CAS 16 @2400 isn't exactly great. You could look who makes your memory with Thaiphoon Burner and match the CAS and Speed. If you do decide to go with that Crucial Ram. The slower stick will bottleneck the other assuming one is faster than the other. You want memory that is at "least" 3200 with decent CAS. Look at Corsair Vengeance or Dominator.
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