ram

[Mistersprinkles]

Ok, so if I did buy 2 8 GB sticks, I should put one of them in each channel? & the different colors are each channels right?

 

You put the sticks in A1 and B1 or A2 and B2. These will be market either on the motherboard or in your motherboard manual.

[DirkW]

I'm not the one telling people to run single channel...

 

Nobody is telling anyone to do that. Giving options and explaing them is what happened here (except by you). Sadly you don't seem to understand the difference. I'm just saying he could go with single channel for a while, if he plans to upgrade to more RAM in the near future and wants to save some money up to then. If he has no plans for upgrading, (or has enough money that is doesn't matter to him that he needs to buy 2x4GB now, and later another 2x8GB after which he'll have 2x4GB laying around doing nothing), then yes, by all means, he should go dual channel right from the beginning. Never said anything else. But I can clear it up, stating it simpler:

 

Only ever go single channel if you're on a budget and plan to upgrade some time soon. Never use it as your rig's planned end-configuration, as you'd be throwing performance away for no gain.