24GB Dual channel or 16GB Quad channel on X99

[asim1999]

I am thinking about upgrading the 8GB of dual channel ram in my x99 rig cos ram is now cheap.  Should I go with 4X4GB sticks for quad channel or add some extra ram using 2X8GB sticks for 24GB Dual channel 

Which would be the best solution and why.  Plus will quad channel make a huge difference for gaming and light video editing 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Are you running out of RAM? If not, neither will really benefit you. 

 

Quad channel is theoretically better, but has very little impact in real world applications, especially with things like games. 

[done12many2]

2 minutes ago, asim1999 said:

I am thinking about upgrading the 8GB of dual channel ram in my x99 rig cos ram is now cheap.  Should I go with 4X4GB sticks for quad channel or add some extra ram using 2X8GB sticks for 24GB Dual channel 

Which would be the best solution and why.  Plus will quad channel make a huge difference for gaming and light video editing 

 

C.  4 x 8 for 32 GB of quad channel.  

 

Seriously though, what are you primarily doing with the computer?  I'd personally do 4 x 4 for quad channel.

[asim1999]

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Are you running out of RAM? If not, neither will really benefit you. 

 

Quad channel is theoretically better, but has very little impact in real world applications, especially with things like games. 

I've had some memory leaks on bf1 beta.  Is this normal as I have hard that people with more ram than me we've had this issue 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, asim1999 said:

I've had some memory leaks on bf1 beta.  Is this normal as I have hard that people with more ram than me we've had this issue 

That's not surprising for a beta. Besides, the beta is over now, so it's not exactly an issue you're going to have again. 

 

Really, unless you're actually using up all of your RAM (at which point, the system will slow to a crawl), you're not going to get any performance increase from adding more. 

[asim1999]

15 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

That's not surprising for a beta. Besides, the beta is over now, so it's not exactly an issue you're going to have again. 

 

Really, unless you're actually using up all of your RAM (at which point, the system will slow to a crawl), you're not going to get any performance increase from adding more. 

Mostly gaming,  but will 8GB suffice for gaming and recording using shadowplay for the next few years 

[done12many2]

Just now, asim1999 said:

Mostly gaming,  but will 8GB suffice for gaming and recording using shadowplay for the next few years 

 

I'd recommend you go ahead and upgrade that badboy to quad channel and how it was designed to be used.  You bought the x99 platform for a reason.  Anything that truly requires you to run a 6 core CPU will take advantage of quad channel memory.

 

By the way, what is the current configuration of the memory that you currently have?  2 x 4 or 1 x 8?

[Praesi]

14 minutes ago, asim1999 said:

Mostly gaming,  but will 8GB suffice for gaming and recording using shadowplay for the next few years 

BF1 "Beta" used up to 12GB Ram on my PC.

[asim1999]

9 hours ago, done12many2 said:

 

I'd recommend you go ahead and upgrade that badboy to quad channel and how it was designed to be used.  You bought the x99 platform for a reason.  Anything that truly requires you to run a 6 core CPU will take advantage of quad channel memory.

 

By the way, what is the current configuration of the memory that you currently have?  2 x 4 or 1 x 8?

Current configuration is 2x4GB