Issues with Ram

[ianfry]

Hey there, so I recently ordered a PC from PCS, and well majority of it seems fine. However I have had a series of issues, and this is one of them.
I don't know whether I have faulty RAM installed or what, because I have 16GB Samsury 1333mhz RAM, and my computer struggles with what my 4GB RAM laptop was able to do.
I use Autodesk Maya a lot for uni work, and I can't even work on a model without it lagging constantly and then taking ages to load a certain tool. When purchasing my PC I purposely got a high RAM, more than what people were recommending '8GB is plently, you probably wont even need that much' as I wanted to be sure and futureproof it for my modelling work.
Is there any way I can check to see if my RAM is running how it should be?

Thanks

 

[Maestro]

i see you didnt order an operating system. can you tell us what os you installed, and confirm that you have installed all relevant drivers?

 

[ianfry]

That is correct, I am a member of MSDNA so managed to get the Windows 7 64bit OS free through that, I installed the ISO on to a disc and that all worked fine. I am not totally sure what drivers I need, I have updated my GPU driver, and a driver to allow my wireless keyboard and mouse to work better but I used a device driver checker and it returned a lot of drivers that need updating and a few that were not installed at all. The problem is I don't know where I can download them for free. Also what ones I actually need, as I have posted on here previously about things not working and people have said not to trust device driver checkers.

 

[AndyL]

You could run memtest to check your RAM is working OK.