Author Topic: [MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments (Read 1311245 times)

i went into pcpartpicker today to try and build a miniITX/microATX comp but realized that i remembered nothing about building computers aside from the terminology because i haven't touched this thing in half a year

welp, time to relearn everything

Foxscotch · November 08, 2015, 04:25:25 PM

in another thread I've remembered that I want to upgrade my memory sometime
I know that, for example, two 4GB sticks is better than one eight, so is four 4GB sticks better than two eights?
I already have two 4GB ones, so just buying two more would be an easy way to upgrade

Steve5451� · November 08, 2015, 04:41:08 PM

Quote from: Foxscotch on November 08, 2015, 04:25:25 PM

in another thread I've remembered that I want to upgrade my memory sometime
I know that, for example, two 4GB sticks is better than one eight, so is four 4GB sticks better than two eights?
I already have two 4GB ones, so just buying two more would be an easy way to upgrade

Depends if your motherboard supports quad channel memory.

Foxscotch · November 08, 2015, 04:46:01 PM

if it does, the site doesn't seem to mention it
I know that it has four slots, though
would it still be cost-effective to just buy two more 4GB sticks anyway?
if it would make a noticeably big difference, I'd be fine with just buying two 8GB sticks and giving my current ones to someone else

then again, maybe I should continue with my plan to upgrade my processor next, to an intel cpu. but that would require me to switch out the motherboard too, which I don't think is ideal

ZER� · November 08, 2015, 04:48:54 PM

Actually using 4 sticks of 4gbs is a bad idea even if your board supports quad channel its actually faster to use two, as two 8gb sticks are better than having 4 4gb sticks.

Steve5451� · November 08, 2015, 04:54:40 PM

Quote from: ZER� on November 08, 2015, 04:48:54 PM

Actually using 4 sticks of 4gbs is a bad idea even if your board supports quad channel its actually faster to use two, as two 8gb sticks are better than having 4 4gb sticks.

I don't think that's true.

ZER� · November 08, 2015, 05:01:34 PM

Quote from: Steve5451� on November 08, 2015, 04:54:40 PM

I don't think that's true.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/301177-30-quad-channel-dual-channel
http://superuser.com/questions/87175/dual-channel-ram-vs-quad-channel-ram

Its a marketing ploy, and its generally slower but only by 1% or 2%.

Bisjac · November 08, 2015, 05:08:58 PM

The less sticks the faster the memory. You want at least 2 to use dual channel.

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