I have 2 sticks of (G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-1866C10D-16GSR) in my ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R.2 Motherboard. I have an 8 Core AMD FX8350 and have two high speed hard drives (Western Digital Caviar Black 2 TB) and (Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB)... I'm Planning on adding a (SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series 256MB SSD) to keep OS on... At any rate... I wanted to know if what the difference would be in getting to more identical RAM sticks (the ones mentioned at the top), as oposed to getting a whole new kit... Namely the (G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-1866C10Q-32GSR)... I am running Windows 8.1 and I edit and create massive Audio files... Which would work the best and why? Thank you for the help!

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The only difference is its double the amount of ram the speeds are the same, threading is the same. It will come down to the board and operating system. (Win 8 sucks) most boards support up to 32 gb but there are boards fpr But win 8 will only use 4 Being in x86 bit and 128gb in standard win 8 x64 bit. There is 1 board that supports 256 gb of ram ($800). Processor matters too

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