RAM

[Confused Chicken]

Hello I'm the confused chicken trying to build a pc. So I bought 1 G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16S-16GVK to go on my MSI Enthusiast Gaming AMD Ryzen 2ND & 3rd Gen X570 AM4 DDR4 PCIe 4 M.2 USB 3.1 CFX SLI WiFi 6 Dual LAN ATX Motherbaord (Meg X570 Ace) but i'm reading everywhere that dual channel ram is better so what should I do now? Buy another ripjaw ddr4 16gb (same one) or buy two 8gb kit and try to sell the one ram stick I bought? People are saying I will lose around 15% performance with the single and the motherboard says it supports dual channel. If anyone can help out it would be appreciated. 

[The_russian]

If you are just gaming then you won't benefit from more than 16Gb of ram for the most part. I would return the ram if you could, if not then buy a 2x8Gb kit and sell the current one. 

[MarvinKMooney]

1 minute ago, Confused Chicken said:

Hello I'm the confused chicken trying to build a pc. So I bought 1 G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16S-16GVK to go on my MSI Enthusiast Gaming AMD Ryzen 2ND & 3rd Gen X570 AM4 DDR4 PCIe 4 M.2 USB 3.1 CFX SLI WiFi 6 Dual LAN ATX Motherboard (Meg X570 Ace) but i'm reading everywhere that dual channel ram is better so what should I do now? Buy another ripjaw ddr4 16gb (same one) or buy two 8gb kit and try to sell the one ram stick I bought? People are saying I will lose around 15% performance with the single and the motherboard says it supports dual channel. If anyone can help out it would be appreciated. 

well alot of mumbo jumbo words with diagrams and bench marks and all that good stuff, 1 stick is fine 2 are better.

[Confused Chicken]

so sell the one i have and buy a dual channel kit. Also what is the best ram i should buy for like 100-150 dollars. I saw you need good latency and ddr4 3600 is better than 3200 what I bought before. What's the best one I should buy in that price range 

[Guest]

54 minutes ago, Confused Chicken said:

so sell the one i have and buy a dual channel kit. Also what is the best ram i should buy for like 100-150 dollars. I saw you need good latency and ddr4 3600 is better than 3200 what I bought before. What's the best one I should buy in that price range 

 

This would be arguably the best memory for that frequency and price range.

 

https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232194