Ram slots

[42thgamer]

Hello

Does it makes sense to buy 4x 4 gb of ddr4 ram?

My mobo: Gigabyte ga-ab350-Gaming 3 ATX am4 4 x DDR4 

The ram: Corsair cmk16gx4 m4a2666 °C15 Vengeance lpx 16 GB (4 x GB) 

It would be a bit cheaper for me.

Thanks for the help

[Trevor87]

What do you want to do with the pc ?

 

[iRileyx]

Unless you want to upgrade to 32gb in the future, might aswell get the 4x4 kit and populate all the slots.

As you're going for a Ryzen build i'd try and get 3000+mhz ram though.

[42thgamer]

1 minute ago, Trevor87 said:

What do you want to do with the pc ?

 

It would be my gaming rig, and would like to try some mining but nothing major. Are there any benefits? Or negative things about multiple ram slots?

[King_of_Oz]

Unless you want to upgrade in the future more easily, it’s fine. It is more logical to have 2 x 8, but 4x4 is fine.

[42thgamer]

2 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Unless you want to upgrade to 32gb in the future, might aswell get the 4x4 kit and populate all the slots.

As you're going for a Ryzen build i'd try and get 3000+mhz ram though.

well I see that the 4x4 kit is not available anymore. I think I am going to go for corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB kit. It is is almost 60 dollars more but 3000 mhz

[Thermosman]

6 minutes ago, 42thgamer said:

Hello

Does it makes sense to buy 4x 4 gb of ddr4 ram?

My mobo: Gigabyte ga-ab350-Gaming 3 ATX am4 4 x DDR4 

The ram: Corsair cmk16gx4 m4a2666 °C15 Vengeance lpx 16 GB (4 x GB) 

It would be a bit cheaper for me.

Thanks for the help

I would recommend a 2x8 kit of 3000 ram, ideally from gskill. Where are you located and what is the price of the 4x4 kit

[42thgamer]

1 minute ago, Thermosman said:

I would recommend a 2x8 kit of 3000 ram, ideally from gskill. Where are you located and what is the price of the 4x4 kit

I live in Belgium and the price of the 4x4 kit is 150 euro but currently unavailable, and the 2x8 kit is 210 euro.

4x4 kit:Corsair cmk16gx4 m4a2666 °C15 Vengeance lpx 

2x8 kit: Crosair Vengeance LPX

[Trevor87]

Well go with what you want they are both good Corsair or Gskill  2x8 kit and if you want do mining keep at 80 % or lower to make you components last longer.

[42thgamer]

1 minute ago, Trevor87 said:

Well go with what you want they are both good Corsair or Gskill  2x8 kit and if you want do mining keep at 80 % or lower to make you components last longer.

What do you mean with 80%, trying to  learn as much as possible

[johndms]

 

Just keep this in mind. Improvements have been made, people are able to overclock to 3200 more often, but Ryzen STILL has problems with memory compatibility. Using four sticks of memory will almost always be more difficult than using two. Your best bet is to not go the cheap route with ram. Get something that you KNOW will work BEFORE purchasing by doing your research. What works for other people with your exact board? These forums are full of people who buy cheap crap and wonder why it doesn't work as expected (or at all).

[Mooshi]

If 2 sticks can reach the same capacity as 4, always go 2. It's dumb purposely stressing your memory controller with lower capacity ram unless you already had an existing kit.

[Trevor87]

Well the load on your graphics card or what ever you using to mine. Because most because most hardware  is designed to run at 80 % loud for a very long long long long time where if you run 100 % you burn out your parts lot quicker.