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using 4 slots of ram on AM4

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Depends on your use case. For gaming more than 16 GB is generally considered overkill. If you have an app that can make use of 32 GB, you should see better performance.

 

It just means adding more RAM won't give you additional read/write speed (bandwidth). If you had quad channel you'd have to populate all four slots to get full memory speed.

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is it possible to use all the 4 slots of ram on an AM4 motherboard?

i have 2x8GB now, i would like to purchase another same pair of ram to have 32GB in total

will it work or is it pointless to buy since AM4 only support dual channel?

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Dual channel means that each pair of sticks will work in tandem, not that you can only use two of them. So for example stick 1+3 and 2+4 will work together to double the bandwith. Quad channel means all for of them would work together to quadruple it.

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2 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Dual channel means that two pairs of sticks will work in tandem, not that you can only use two of them. So for example stick 1+3 and 2+4 will work together to double the bandwith. Quad channel means all for of them would work together to quadruple it.

so if i purchase another pair of ram it will work but it wont give me any better performance? is that right?

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Depends on your use case. For gaming more than 16 GB is generally considered overkill. If you have an app that can make use of 32 GB, you should see better performance.

 

It just means adding more RAM won't give you additional read/write speed (bandwidth). If you had quad channel you'd have to populate all four slots to get full memory speed.

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Also possible the IMC will struggle with all four RAM slots populated, and you might have to reduce frequency to get them all to work. 

 

So potentially you may lose performance.

Before you reply to my post, REFRESH. 99.99% chance I edited my post. 

 

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2 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Depends on your use case. For gaming more than 16 GB is generally considered overkill. If you have an app that can make use of 32 GB, you should see better performance.

 

It just means adding more RAM won't give you additional read/write speed (bandwidth). If you had quad channel you'd have to populate all four slots to get full memory speed.

thank you, so i will just save the money to buy better gpu then

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