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RAM Questions 3/4 ram slots?
Hey everyone! I just wanna ask something for my new PC I'm gonna be building at christmas.
My question is that, the motherboard has 4 RAM slots, and I'm getting 2 sticks of Kingston HyperX FURY 4GB, so 8gb total. I wanna go for 12GB so I have just a little extra but not as much as 16GB.
However, the main question is that, if I get another 4GB stick, to make it 12GB, will 3/4 ram slots be fine? Because I have the thought, that if I leave one RAM slot free, I can stick another 4GB stick in there in the future if needed for 16GB.
Anyway, thanks all!
3 Answers
- starpc11Lv 76 years ago
Your pc should read the three slot ram without any issues , just a reminder performance wise i would of use all slots but just mention that adding a 4gb ram later on
- geek-in-trainingLv 76 years ago
No one has mentioned dual channel memory. If you have 8Gb (2x4Gb), then you have enabled dual channel. If you add another 4Gb, then you use 3 channels, which is an odd number and disables dual channel. If you add the 4th RAM, you enable dual channel again.
While adding the 3rd RAM increases the amount of RAM to 12Gb, it disables dual channel and all the memory runs at a slower clock
- ?Lv 76 years ago
As you are doing it soon I`d go straight for 16 as thats pretty much the starting level is now
