Ram question

[j.woodsy18]

Greetings, I currently have 16gb of 3200mhz ram and have been thinking about upgrading to more capacity. This may be a dumb question but would I lose any performance by having 4x 8 gig sticks compared to 2 16 gig sticks? I know that you're supposed to put the sticks in slots 2-4 due to like latency reasons so im wondering if it would increase the latency timings by running ram in all 4 channels? 

[WereCat]

4x8GB single rank sticks will have the same performance as 2x16GB dual rank sticks (assuming the clock and timings are the same) or more performance than 2x16 gb singke rank. 

 

(don't confuse with channels, I'm talking about dual channel configuration in all cases) 

[SupaKomputa]

No. if the ram is identical, you will have no problem.

[suedseefrucht]

6 minutes ago, j.woodsy18 said:

im wondering if it would increase the latency timings by running ram in all 4 channels? 

Your motherboard probably supports dual channel RAM.

That means, two RAM channels are going to your CPU.

So if you just use 1 RAM stick, you only use 1 channel and only half of the possible bandwidth.
But 4 sticks are just as fast as 2 sticks because in both cases, both channels are used.

So the same amount of data is transfered per second.
 

[j.woodsy18]

Thank you friends, kind of a dumb questions but I just wasn't sure  

Much love I wish you all a wonderful weekend

[suedseefrucht]

Just now, j.woodsy18 said:

kind of a dumb questions

The are no dumb questions.
We all started from somewhere and the more we ask, the more we get to know.

[IPD]

32 minutes ago, suedseefrucht said:

The are no dumb questions.

...Only questions that should have been asked before someone started...

ftfy