What's better: two 16gb sticks of RAM or one 32gb stick?
2 32gb
>>107004844I don't think you could of been more retarded if you tried
>>107004824Any performance difference is small enough to be negligible.The advantage of a single stick is that you can always buy another one and run it dual channel later. Some mobo/cpu cooler configurations might also block one of the ram slots which is no problem when you only have a single stick, but this is usually not an issue
>>107004824For performance on a typical dual-channel consumer platform? Two sticks will give you more bandwidth, which can become very important in certain scenarios, like CPU-bound gaming.The performance impact of going single-channel on a dual-channel platform was even hueger on DDR4.
>>107004824I've always read that two is better than one single stick, something to do with motherboard, bios and how it handles things, nerd things I don't know much about sorry, ask chatgpt
arnt dual ram sticks basically RAID0?
>>107004824Four 16s
>>107004824It depends on tightly they fit.
also 2 sticks is usually better then 4 on most standard dual channel typical laptop/desktop non-workstation/server platforms, your maximum overclocked memory speeds can be more limited with 4 sticks.
Why not just make high capacity sticks? In terms of logistics it would be easier. The manufacturing process dont differ all that much i think.
>>107004824You mean 2 sticks vs 4? You only get away with using one stick if you're running an intel gracemont cpu or another single-channel cpu
>>107004902>doubling the memory bandwidth is negligiblelmao retard
>>107004892learn english motherfucker
>>107004824sCAMM
>>1070048924 32gb
>>107004824nobody is speaking about dual bank sticks anymore do i want dual bank stick in DDR5 era
>>107004824I’m still using DDR3 in triple channel on my personal rig and real world performance “feel” is better than the DDR5 slop in the Dell laptop my employer provided.
>>107005554Sir this is a DDR3 board
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>>107004824Two is better because you can use double the memory bandwidth, which increases performance when you are not limited by your GPU. Though DDR5 sticks have their own pseudo dual channel built into them, so having two sticks vs one doesn't matter as much anymore compared to DDR4 and before days. But you will still see an uplift if you are CPU limited.However the advantage of a single 32gb stick is that it's a bit cheaper. And if you want to upgrade to 64gb later all you need to do is buy an another 32gb stick. While if you have 2 16gb sticks your options are to buy two 32gb sticks separately which costs more money. Or you would buy 2 more 16gb sticks. But on consumer platforms running 4 sticks is worse than 2 sticks and if you have an AMD system you will probably run unstable if the RAM is higher clock speed. And you will probably have to lower to JEDEC speeds if you want to run 4 ram sticks stable on AMD. Intel tends to have better memory comparability still. But in conclusion if you plan to upgrade later to 64gb get the single 32gb stick. If not get 2 16gb sticks.
>>107004824Dual channel gives the CPU more bandwidth. It makes a huge difference if you intend to use integrated graphics.
>>107005665Sure you will find the same sku with the same ics in 2 years
>>107005580slop might catch up if you have another stick installed if there is only one
>>107005728Considering it's a laptop the memory latency is probably like 100nsIt will never feel as good as tuned ram.
>>107005696I mean mixing ram isn't that bad. Especially if it's just 2 sticks. I say this as someone who used to run my old DDR3 system in the following combination. 2x 2gb sticks and 1x 8gb stick. Wasn't unstable at all.
Glad I bought my ddr5 early this year because last time I checked it's doubled in price
>>107005757Your performance will suck. Your performance did suck.
>>107005312STOPMY MOTHER BOARD ONLY HAS 2 SLOTSI CAN'T DO 4 SLOTSI CAN'T
>>107005632"Jokes" like that are a diamond dozen
>>1070057822 slot boards overclock better
>>107004977Four 32s
>>107004844fpbp64gb chads can't stop winning
>>107007202>>107004824
>>107004977why doesnt real quad-channel exist anymore
>>107008065it does. in laptops, minipcs and workstations
>>107007998not even enough these daysnext mobo upgrade im going 2x64gb since it seems those sticks have hit the consumer market nowwhat's sad is with DDR5 you can't use more than 2 sticks because they're unstable or some shit.
>>1070082892x48GB is doable.
>>107005593my 10 year old ddr3 shitbox boots much faster than my ddr5 desktop
>>107008300I can only afford 2x40GB
