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yes you can put another dual channel kit in but it wouldnt be quad channel

 

quad channel ram are specific kits and has to be supported by your mobo

 

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Just a bit of a noob question, right now I have 2x4GB RAM setup. I was looking at maybe getting 16GB. If my motherboard has 4 slots but says "dual channel" on the website would I be able to grab another 2x4GB kit (that's dual channel) and plug it in to get 16GB? or would it not work/be slower?

 

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Just a bit of a noob question, right now I have 2x4GB RAM setup. I was looking at maybe getting 16GB. If my motherboard has 4 slots but says "dual channel" on the website would I be able to grab another 2x4GB kit (that's dual channel) and plug it in to get 16GB? or would it not work/be slower?

 

motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-D3P 

Dual channel just means it can benefit from having two sticks instead of one.  Adding more memory will work, and will add capacity, but to get higher speed from it you would need quad channel

 

Think of it like having 2 drives in RAID0, and now you want to swap those out for drives of double the capacity.  If you had quad channel, adding more memory would be like adding two more drives of the same capacity to the RAID0 setup

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Yeah, sure. 

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yes you can put another dual channel kit in but it wouldnt be quad channel

 

quad channel ram are specific kits and has to be supported by your mobo

 

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...and has to be supported by your mobo

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and CPU

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Awesome, thanks for all the replies guys. Appreciate it!

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