[SOLVED] 4GB + 4GB or 4GB + 8/16GB ??

[felixlim75]

Hello guys. I have new acer swift 3
It comes with 4GB onboard soldered and 1 empty slot upto 16GB.
So 4GB isnt enough for me.
Should I add
4 GB and become 8GB in total ,
8 GB and become 16GB in total ,
or 16GB and become 20GB in total??
I confuse about dual channel and the performance of both sticks.

 

[Phazoner]

I guess you're not going to need that laptop for RAM intensive tasks, so 8GB is more than enough. If you are, then I guess that the dual channel little performance benefits just won't be better than going from 8GB to 20GB.

 

[felixlim75]

I guess you're not going to need that laptop for RAM intensive tasks, so 8GB is more than enough. If you are, then I guess that the dual channel little performance benefits just won't be better than going from 8GB to 20GB.

May you tell me what is pro and cons 4GB + 4GB of ram than 4GB + 8GB. Both are same speed but one is 4GB and one 8GB. Thanks

 

[Phazoner]

Having same sized memories gives you the advantage of dual-channel, which means faster memory management so the pc will manage better to load everything. With 4GB+8GB you only get more space so if you just have massive amounts of windows opened, tabs in the browser (really massive) you can go above 8GB without loosing performance but overall it will be a little slower.