4 sticks of 8gigs on Z270 mobo

[vmalheiros]

Guys I was retarded enough to buy 32 gb of ram in 4 sticks of 8 Gigs for an asus z270 motherboard. What do I do now, other than killing myself? 

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, vmalheiros said:

Guys I was retarded enough to buy 32 gb of ram in 4 sticks of 8 Gigs for an asus z270 motherboard. What do I do now, other than killing myself? 

Time to start learning how to use applications that require it
I would just plug them and have "future proof" haha but you could always try to sell them or trade in something, if you dont unpack them it can retain  quite the value and your loses will be less though you'll have the trouble of selling and all.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Use it then.

[vmalheiros]

But the thing is that motherboard only runs dual channel

[Biggerboot]

2 minutes ago, vmalheiros said:

But the thing is that motherboard only runs dual channel

Quad channel kits can be used as 2 dual channels.  Essentially it's the same RAM.

[vmalheiros]

1 minute ago, Biggerboot said:

Quad channel kits can be used as 2 dual channels.  Essentially it's the same RAM.

So does that mean it will run as 2 sticks of 16 Gb? Will it perform at the same lvl?

[Biggerboot]

Just now, vmalheiros said:

So does that mean it will run as 2 sticks of 16 Gb? Will it perform at the same lvl?

It'll perform the same as 2 sticks, yes.  The only difference is that if you want to upgrade down the road you'll need to replace at least 2 of the sticks.

 

I think you'll be fine.  It's going to be some time before you'll utilize more RAM than that.

[vmalheiros]

1 minute ago, Biggerboot said:

It'll perform the same as 2 sticks, yes.  The only difference is that if you want to upgrade down the road you'll need to replace at least 2 of the sticks.

 

I think you'll be fine.  It's going to be some time before you'll utilize more RAM than that.

Thanks bruh. I was starting to freak out. 

[done12many2]

3 minutes ago, vmalheiros said:

So does that mean it will run as 2 sticks of 16 Gb? Will it perform at the same lvl?

 

Just because you bought a set of 4 doesn't mean that it is binned for quad channel and even if it was, that only means it's higher binned and therefor better memory.

[Biggerboot]

2 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

Just because you bought a set of 4 doesn't mean that it is binned for quad channel and even if it was, that only means it's higher binned and therefor better memory.

Most of the time it's the same RAM (probably the same model), they just package it as "Quad Channel" for convenience of X99 buyers.

[done12many2]

1 minute ago, Biggerboot said:

Most of the time it's the same RAM (probably the same model), they just package it as "Quad Channel" for convenience of X99 buyers.

 

It is the same RAM, but they bin the sticks closest in performance together.  It's easier on the Haswell-E and Broadwell-E IMCs, which are notoriously picky with non matched sets.