Friend of a friend told me

[Marcus Torre DeProspero]

So yeah a friend of a friend told me that my friend's cpu needs two sticks of ram to use both cores and he has an intel pentium g3258 I know he is stupid but is this really true?

[thekeemo]

Hell no you are better off with a single bigger stick

[Marcus Torre DeProspero]

Hell no you are better off with a single bigger stick

Thank you I thought I was high for a while because I almost believed him

[Guest Kloaked]

No that's not true.

[Josephdalepi]

this is genuinely one of the dumbest things ive ever heard

[byalexandr]

Tell your friend to never give anyone advice ever again.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Yes. That's why the boards that support the 18 core Xeons have 18 RAM slots. ECC allows you to use Hyperthreading on the CPU. 

 

(That's not true, by the way)

[The Official Czex]

Hell no! It only uses five cores. 

[rafazafar]

So yeah a friend of a friend told me that my friend's cpu needs two sticks of ram to use both cores and he has an intel pentium g3258 I know he is stupid but is this really true?

To use both cores? err.

Modern CPU/motherboard nowdays support dual and up to quad channel ram.

In the typical case of using just one stick instead of two, it will be running in single channel mode, thats all, nothing to do with cpu.

Core operation is not dependant on how many sticks, if you have two core, both cores will work. if you have 8 core then 8 works. even if u have just a single stick or 8 sticks or whatever

[rafazafar]

Hell no! It only uses five cores. 

i heard it uses 3 and a half cores if you pair it with an nvidia gpu

[The Official Czex]

i heard it uses 3 and a half cores if you pair it with an nvidia gpu

 

I think you mean "Intel" GPU... Jeez. Some people...

[Marcus Torre DeProspero]

Tell your friend to never give anyone advice ever again.

Well I just showed my buddy this thread and he told his friend never to give him advice again

[thekeemo]

Yes. That's why the boards that support the 18 core Xeons have 18 RAM slots. ECC allows you to use Hyperthreading on the CPU. 

 

(That's not true, by the way)

nice touch with the ECC

[byalexandr]

Well I just showed my buddy this thread and he told his friend never to give him advice again

Good riddance.

[GDRRiley]

So yeah a friend of a friend told me that my friend's cpu needs two sticks of ram to use both cores and he has an intel pentium g3258 I know he is stupid but is this really true?

no you can use any CPU with just 1 stick.

[Sportiva]

Thats like saying consoles get better quality and fps than a $2,000 computer.

[Godlygamer23]

You do not need two sticks of RAM to use two CPU cores. That is an absurd idea.

[PlayStation 2]

I wonder if your friend has ever poked around in a laptop.

[johnny5c]

I remember seeing a April fools post on a different forum years ago when the Athlon X2 first came out that said if you had three sticks of ram it would unlock a hidden 3rd core, funny thing was that dual core CPUs were so new at the time that a few believed it and ran out and got a 3rd stick.

[airdeano]

single channel or dual channel memory has nothing to do with functionality of

the CPU. one stick of RAM will perform fine, but two sticks (when in the proper

DIMM slots) will enable the dual channel operations. allowing the RAM to

"duplex" functions and data.

[Neemil]

That's like saying an i5 needs four sticks of ram to use all of itss cores lol.

[Godlygamer23]

That's like saying an i5 needs four sticks of ram to use all of itss cores lol.

What if you have a 6700K?

[Neemil]

What if you have a 6700K?

LMAO

[Coaxialgamer]

What if you have a 6700K?

You need ecc ddr4...

[Nena Trinity]

You need 2 sticks of RAM for dual-channel not dual-core!