Yes, it needs to be the same exact stick of RAM from the same company, that also means the same capacity, speed rate, clock speed etc.
About the FPS greatly increase, I doubt, you'll mostly get little to no difference about that. What is noticeable is when it comes to rendering stuff and compression/decompression about files
There's companies that sell you RAM kits specifically for this.
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Ok, I found the stick of RAM, it has the same exact everything; except the RAM currently in my laptop is a Samsung stick, and the one i'm looking at was made for my laptop (with same exact specs as samsung ram); Except this stick is made by Crucial and not by Samsung.
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With pretty new computer/laptop (it works on my ~10 years old motherboard, so You really don't need that new) You doesn't need THE same stick, if you put a bunch of different ones it will just run them with a specification of the worst/slowest one and it will also work in x-channel mode.
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Ok, but faster loading times are better than nothing right? Plus in some of my games it takes forever for maps to load.
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Nothing greatly increases FPS other than the GPU and the CPU (partially).
If you have enough RAM for a game chances are you wont notice the difference adding more. If you don't have enough RAM for a game then it'll be unplayable.
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I work in audio design (among other things), for me RAM is particularly important as I can easily fill 8-16 and even 32 gigs of RAM with VST-s, VSTi/VST2/VST3-s and ReWire.
It's a whole lotta different to gaming though.
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YES I SEARCHED IT UP ON GOOGLE BUT I DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND.
Ok so I have a super-shitty Intel graphics 4000. I have 4 gigs of RAM, keep in mind I have 2 RAM slots and one of them is 4 gigs, and there's nothing in the other one. I recently found out that running two sticks of RAM in dual-channel mode can greatly increase my FPS (because intel graphics steals graphics memory from the PC's RAM).
But is Dual channel both the SAME EXACT sticks of RAM, or can it also be two sticks of RAM (from different manufactureres), except with the same exact clock speed?
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