motherbord Wich motherbord is better,Dual channel or quad channel?

[R JEY RIFATH]

i i am confused about motherbord..now a days wich is better ..does a dual channel motherbord is fast then quad channel ... how a dual channel motherboard work...?

[TheNight]

Depends how much ram you want. 

 

Dual channel has 2 separate buses used for information delivery to the CPU. Meaning that if you have 2 DIMM sticks there would be no contest between them as long as they are inserted into the proper slots. 

 

Quad Channel is the same concept but on a larger scale. If you use 8 DIMM sticks on a quad channel motherboard, rather than a dual channel motherboard, only 2 sticks would have to compete with eachother in terms of information delivery to the CPU compared to 4 sticks competing on one bus to deliver information.

[dcgreen2k]

I'm not entirely sure how it works, but dual channel and quad channel don't make much of a difference in performance, except for AMD Ryzen CPUs.

[R JEY RIFATH]

4 minutes ago, TheNight said:

I want to insart 4 stick of ddr4 ram on dual channel motherbord.. thouse ram can communicate eachothers on dual channel motherboard?

 

[porina]

The number of memory channels is part of how much total ram bandwidth is available. It scales simply, dual channel is double single channel. Quad channel is double dual, or 4x single. The other factor is the rated speed. Generally it is easier to have more channels than fewer faster ones.

 

The limitation is quad channel is only really available on higher end hardware. Do you really need it? Most things only have a weak to moderate impact. I have some compute scenarios where it has a high impact, but they're not every day things.

 

7 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

I'm not entirely sure how it works, but dual channel and quad channel don't make much of a difference in performance, except for AMD Ryzen CPUs.

Ryzen CPUs can be helped by faster speed ram, as its infinity fabric is matched to the ram clock. The number of channels doesn't impact that directly.

Just now, R JEY RIFATH said:

I want to insart 4 stick of ddr4 ram on dual channel motherbord.. thouse ram can communicate eachothers on dual channel motherboard?

You can use 4 modules on dual channel no problem. Unless you need high total capacity, consider getting two modules and keep the slots spare.

[Jon Jon]

40 minutes ago, TheNight said:

Depends how much ram you want. 

 

Dual channel has 2 separate buses used for information delivery to the CPU. Meaning that if you have 2 DIMM sticks there would be no contest between them as long as they are inserted into the proper slots. 

 

Quad Channel is the same concept but on a larger scale. If you use 8 DIMM sticks on a quad channel motherboard, rather than a dual channel motherboard, only 2 sticks would have to compete with eachother in terms of information delivery to the CPU compared to 4 sticks competing on one bus to deliver information.

With that being said, dual channel seems to be the sweet spot for the regular consumer. I can see the value in quad channel for HEDT prosumer machines because of the types of workloads they need to do.

 

BTW, why is nobody mentioning triple channel?! REMEMBER THAT?!

[TheNight]

Just now, Jon Jon said:

With that being said, dual channel seems to be the sweet spot for the regular consumer. I can see the value in quad channel for HEDT prosumer machines because of the types of workloads they need to do.

 

BTWE, why is nobody mentioning triple channel?! REMEMBER THAT?!

Yep, dual channel would be the sweet spot for the regular consumers such as gamers. 

 

Quad Channel would be helpful for power users, using more RAM sticks. 

 

Triple channel memory is a relic of the past. Gone and sadly forgotten. 

 

Rest In Peace Triple Channel Memory. 

[porina]

11 minutes ago, Jon Jon said:

BTWE, why is nobody mentioning triple channel?! REMEMBER THAT?!

I think they should consider bringing it back as an option, at least for high end consumer below HEDT. Now that we're entering into many more cores, the increases in ram speed aren't keeping up with the CPU potential.

[R JEY RIFATH]

I think dual and quad are available ..most motherbord has made for dual and quad channel .becouse of this people forgot about 3 channel.