2 kits with 4 sticks each are the same as one 8 sticks kit?

[Samael]

Hi there!

 

There is 4 and 8 DDR4 RAM kits.. If I want  memory to work in Quad-channel mode - I have to buy a kit with 4 RAM sticks to be sure that they gonna work perfectly fine in quad-channel. But what about kits with 8 sticks? Current gen RAM and CPU supports only quad-channel memory. So, if I have motherboard with 8 dimm slots and I buy 4 sticks kit and put them into 1,3,7,5 DIMM slots and then buy another 4 sticks kit - put them into 2,4,6,8 slots - they gonna work as good as if I get 8 sticks kit? Or when all 8 DIMM slots are used they start to work differently (not 1,3,7,5 (I) and 2,4,6,8 (II))?

 

Thank you! =)

[salecar3]

just buy 2 kits of 4 stick and put them 12345678 or if u want 4 than put them 1357 if u want 1 kit of 8 stick get 64gb of ram(8x8gb)

[Ketcchup]

They will work at Quad-Channel if they're the same models (Same speed and latencies). If not, you will be at single channel mode.

[Samael]

They will work at Quad-Channel if they're the same models (Same speed and latencies). If not, you will be at single channel mode.

2 kits with 4 sticks each are the same as one 8 sticks kit?

[Ketcchup]

2 kits with 4 sticks each are the same as one 8 sticks kit?

Yea, but the 2 kits have to be the same model, not a Kingston kit and a gskill kit. They must be the same brand and model.

[Samael]

Yea, but the 2 kits have to be the same model, not a Kingston kit and a gskill kit. They must be the same brand and model.

I get it. So, two quad-channel RAM kits in (1,3,5,7) and (2,4,6,8) DIMM slots are going to work exactly the way that 8 sticks kit would? Are you sure?

[Curufinwe_wins]

Yea, but the 2 kits have to be the same model, not a Kingston kit and a gskill kit. They must be the same brand and model.

they don't really need to be the same model and brand, they only need to have the same timings and speed, but in theory you could always turn one set down to match a lower tier one.

[Ketcchup]

they don't really need to be the same model and brand, they only need to have the same timings and speed, but in theory you could always turn one set down to match a lower tier one.

Yes, but there is always some latency variations that fucks up the dual/triple/quad channel, so it's better to buy the same model

[Curufinwe_wins]

Yes, but there is always some latency variations that fucks up the dual/triple/quad channel, so it's better to buy the same model

Aye. In theory I say.