Which RAM should I use?

[Steveyphat]

Budget (including currency): N/A

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, Youtube, Email

Other details Monitor will be all at 165hz running at 1080p. I only have one set of each RAM, please don't just select 3600 for all of them. Thank you

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

THE HELL WOULD YOU PUT A 1X4GB KIT IN A 2600X SYSTEM WHEN YOU CAN GET A 2X8?!?

[LTT_fanboy]

i say if / when you go with the i9 you occupy all four slots so that way , i think , you can do more multitasking with less load on the ram going input output-wise. (i am in no way an expert fyi)

[Steveyphat]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

THE HELL WOULD YOU PUT A 1X4GB KIT IN A 2600X SYSTEM WHEN YOU CAN GET A 2X8?!?

It is just a replacement option for 4GBx4

[Steveyphat]

Just now, LTT_fanboy said:

i say if / when you go with the i9 you occupy all four slots so that way , i think , you can do more multitasking. (i am in no way an exper fyi)

Thank you. I thought the i9 ran only in dual channel.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 minutes ago, LTT_fanboy said:

i say if / when you go with the i9 you occupy all four slots so that way , i think , you can do more multitasking with less load on the ram going input output-wise. (i am in no way an expert fyi)

The i9 has no quad channel. The improvement will be small (dual vs single rank)

 

2 minutes ago, Steveyphat said:

Thank you. I thought the i9 ran only in dual channel.

you are right

[LTT_fanboy]

1 minute ago, Steveyphat said:

Thank you. I thought the i9 ran only in dual channel.

yea , BUT if you do (from what i know) occupy all dimm slots your ram will have a lesser load on it , the 9900k does not support quad channel (thanks google)

[Moonzy]

i would probably do this

 

i9: best gaming chip out of the bunch, so best RAM goes to it

3600x: should do just fine at 3000 on 2R 3000MHz

2600x: should be able to handle 1R(?) 3000MHz

[Steveyphat]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

i would probably do this

 

i9: best gaming chip out of the bunch, so best RAM goes to it

3600x: should do just fine at 3000 on 2R 3000MHz

2600x: should be able to handle 1R(?) 3000MHz

Thank you. This is very helpful