4 VS 8 Sticks?

[exiledbot]

My next build will be 5820K, 750ti on Asus X99-A motherboard.


I was wondering if 16GBX4 will be better than 8GB*8?

I will be using this pc heavily on VMware workstation. I'm really confused because some people say more sticks are better, some say the opposite.

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... "Quad Channel Memory Architecture" the MB has the feature... Don't ya wanna run it that way? you need to find the web pages where people are making charts and driving these bad Boys to the extreme.... the charts Don't Lie. B )

 

[iamacow]

well the x99 platform is built for Quad channel. 8 sticks would have your system running two quad channels. The only downside is you stress the memory controller so you can't overclock as high (generally).

The plus side is more memory and that is about it. I could go on but...no point in this simple question.

 

[exiledbot]

So the best way to optimize my build is running 16GB*4 in one quad channel and leave the other quad channel blank right? I don't want more than 64gb ram, It's kind of a stupid question but I want to make sure that I won't regret later.

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes you an x4 set up, it's less stress on the MC (memory controller), with only 4 sticks ......and there is no such thing as running 2 quad channels, with 4 or 8 sticks it's all seen as quad, the DRAM is considered a single 256bit device 😉

 

[exiledbot]

Thanks!!!! it's all clear now.

BTW there's literally no 16 GB ram available in my country. How bad is it to use 8*8GB ram instead of 16*4? I don't want to hurt my pc beacause It will be running 24/7 all year.

 

[Tradesman1]

You're not going to hurt anything, generally at worse it may lower how high you can OC the CPU

 

[iamacow]

Thanks!!!! it's all clear now.

BTW there's literally no 16 GB ram available in my country. How bad is it to use 8*8GB ram instead of 16*4? I don't want to hurt my pc beacause It will be running 24/7 all year.

I use 8x8gb for my X79. been using 64gb for 3 years now...hmm about to be 4. Anyways, Other than not hitting a super high overclock, It runs just fine.

 

[exiledbot]

Oh yes, now I can finally buy some sticks!!! Thanks to everyone!!!