u/Daddy-ough

Planning to upgrade the motherboard memory. It's 8GB now and I'm trying to plan for a two purchase expansion. The system is a general purpose household system that includes some Audacity sound editing and hobbyist programming. My other system with 20GB sometimes uses 80% of RAM (via Windows Task Manager,) so for now I don't ask as much from this low-mem system.

The upgrade plan is an immediate 8GB addition, to total 16GB, and within a year an additional 16 or 32GB.

There are no plans to OC or use it for gaming.

Looking at the specs written below it's obvious any new memory would be mixing specifications. From what I've read that can have bad results in high performance gaming and overclocking but while not optimal, is not very risky in situations like this. Also the manual has an intel XMP warning that in XMP mode the chipset has a maximum transfer rate of DDR4 2133, which I assess may be in my favor it this case but IDK. Because it's barely written in the manual I'd say XMP is sensed by hardware, the user can't control it, can't manually enforce compatibility, but IDK.

Would a "highest appropriate spec available" new 8 GB be a good strategy? Below is a synopsis of what speeds ASUS listed in its recommendations**.**

Example:

(current, first expansion, second expansion)

DDR4, 2100, CAS 16, 1.2v 8GB (current)

DDR4, 3600, CAS 18, 1.35v 8GB (first upgrade example)

DDR4, 2666, CL 19, 1.2v 8GB (another first upgrade example)

DDR4, 2666, CL 19, 1.2v 16GB (second upgrade example)

I noticed the faster RAM has higher voltage.

System Specifications:

MB is an ASUS H170-PRO, a DDR-4 generation type, with 4 DIMM slots to be used in 1, 2 (paired) and 4 (2 pairs) configurations.

Currently has 1 stick of 8GB RAM, the label on the module reads:

ADATA AX4U2400W8G16-BRZ DDR4 2400(16) 8Gx16 CL 16-16-16 1.2v

According to the manuals:

The module currently in the system is listed in the ASUS Qualified Vendors List for this MB.

DDR4 2133, 2400, 2666, 2800, 3000, "3200+" are compatible. In the "3200+" section of the QVL are additional speeds of 3200, 3300, 3333, 3366, 3400, 3466.

A quick review of today's offerings have DDR4 2666, 3200, 3600, 4000 available for purchase.

Asus strongly recommends voltage of 1.35v and under.

There are at least two different ways to discover the keywords you have created over the years. Most people who use keywords don't remember all of them, this discussion might help if you want to join it. The two ways return two sets of keywords. They may overlap. Keywords are definitely optional for Smart Keywords, and I haven't worked through how the lists overlap. Searches using arbitrary elements found using one method don't yield results searching the other method. But vice-versa there may be overlap. There's more to it of course and these descriptions could use some polish.

If anyone wants to discuss any of those vague descriptions, to flesh it out, I'll be more precise and will try to demonstrate how to recreate.

If anyone wants to criticize that I didn't write a couple of pages and a TL:DR, fine, my goal is discussion and after you get it off your chest ask a question.

If you don't know what keyword and Smart Keywords are, ask.

Bookmark tags now stay open when you strike `enter` to affirm an existing tag in the drop down list, thank you. For the uninitiated, the bookmark edit box would close when enter was tapped to select the highlighted choice. Out of habit I've been using my old workaround of using the directional arrows so I don't know when enter affirmation was implemented.

Also thanks for letting tags have more than one space-separated word, something that's been around for a while.

It's gotten to the point with other browsers I mimic tags by putting them in the bookmark names. It's not nearly as elegant as a tags DB but it helps.

Keywords are excellent too, a roll-your-own link to use a website's internal search without first opening the site is too good to ignore and I can't believe other browsers haven't copied it, though some mimic it, which helps if you know their prompts.