single stick ok?

[phenom xt]

guys pls help me as i am facing a problem on upgrading my ram on my mobo, my mobo's second ram slot dosent seem to work and my mobo is asus m4n68t-m le v2 which has a total 8gb ram capacity and i have a 4gb ram right now, i cant change the mobo cuz i dont have much money and these mobos arent available here, i just wanna know if i can replace the 4gb stick with a single 8gb stick on the working slot? thanks for reading

[Downkey]

4 minutes ago, phenom xt said:

guys pls help me as i am facing a problem on upgrading my ram on my mobo, my mobo's second ram slot dosent seem to work and my mobo is asus m4n68t-m le v2 which has a total 8gb ram capacity and i have a 4gb ram right now, i cant change the mobo cuz i dont have much money and these mobos arent available here, i just wanna know if i can replace the 4gb stick with a single 8gb stick on the working slot? thanks for reading

Ok so, 8GB will work and be an upgrade. (Even in single channel.) But, your going to lose about 20% of performance compared to dual channel, as singe channel ram (ram in only 1 slot) has lower memory bandwidth. Upgrading from 4GB will be a good upgrade, but having 2x4 would be much better.

[jaslion]

It's older amd so performance impact will be little. The board officially supports 8gb of ram total but people seem to just be running it with 16gb no problem so a single 8gb stick should work.

[phenom xt]

1 minute ago, Downkey said:

Ok so, 8GB will work and be an upgrade. (Even in single channel.) But, your going to lose about 20% of performance compared to dual channel, as singe channel ram (ram in only 1 slot) has lower memory bandwidth. Upgrading from 4GB will be a good upgrade, but having 2x4 would be much better.

bro r u sure? i mean i dont know much abt mobos but for your reference the mobo has total 8gb ram capacity(two sticks combined) can a single stick hold 8gig memory?

[jaslion]

3 minutes ago, phenom xt said:

bro r u sure? i mean i dont know much abt mobos but for your reference the mobo has total 8gb ram capacity(two sticks combined) can a single stick hold 8gig memory?

I just googled and I've found multiple people running this board with 16gb of ram. Usually it was kingston stuff but seems this board allows it for some reason.