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Does the Ryzen 3700x make use of all 4 memory slots?

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Is it true that Ryzen does not benefit from having fully populated memory modules?

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it is dual channel only; however, depending if the motherboard is T-Topology vs Daisy chain can affect RAM speed performance,

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1 minute ago, puppzogg said:

Is it true that Ryzen does not benefit from having fully populated memory modules?

It does not take advantage of quad channel memory in the same way Threadripper might.

What I mean is that if you use 4 DIMMs of memory, it would just have two dual channels.

 

So 4x4GB would perform the same as 2x8GB (assuming all else is equal).

But with all 4 slots populated you do run into the chance the memory controller can't run the highest speed. 

 

For those reason (no performance advantage, possibly not reaching full speeds) I typically don't recommend going for 4 DIMMs of memory.

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2 minutes ago, minibois said:

It does not take advantage of quad channel memory in the same way Threadripper might.

What I mean is that if you use 4 DIMMs of memory, it would just have two dual channels.

 

So 4x4GB would perform the same as 2x8GB (assuming all else is equal).

But with all 4 slots populated you do run into the chance the memory controller can't run the highest speed. 

 

For those reason (no performance advantage, possibly not reaching full speeds) I typically don't recommend going for 4 DIMMs of memory.

Thanks. So If I wanted 32gb's of memory I would be better off with 2 16gb modules right?

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