What dose Memory Channel mean

[Budjet Tech]

I was looking at Intel processes and I decided with an I7 7700K. Under memory channels it sed two, does that means it only works with two sticks of ram? Because if so then I can go with a cheaper motherboard that supports only two.

[themctipers]

im pretty sure it means it can access two sticks of memory simultaneously, but there can be up to 4 sticks all together 

[LienusLateTips]

Don't get the 7700K either way, an 8600K beats it in gaming.

[Budjet Tech]

4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

im pretty sure it means it can access two sticks of memory simultaneously, but there can be up to 4 sticks all together 

thanks,

should I use two 8gb and then two 4gb or just 8gb

[LienusLateTips]

Just now, Budjet Tech said:

thanks,

should I use two 8gb and then two 4gb or just 8gb

Doesn't really matter anymore either way

[Budjet Tech]

1 minute ago, JDE said:

Doesn't really matter anymore either way

thanks

[themctipers]

12 minutes ago, Budjet Tech said:

thanks,

should I use two 8gb and then two 4gb or just 8gb

2 8gb. 

[Budjet Tech]

Just now, themctipers said:

2 8gb. 

thanks

[MadModder]

Dual Channel Memory allows for a faster data transfer rate between the RAM, and the Memory Controller (CPU). On a motherboard with only two ram slots, one slot will use one channel, and the other slot will use the other channel. If the Motherboard has four ram slots, one channel will use two slots (A1 and A2), and the second channel will use the other two slots (B1 and B2).

[Budjet Tech]

2 minutes ago, MadModder said:

Dual Channel Memory allows for a faster data transfer rate between the RAM, and the Memory Controller (CPU). On a motherboard with only two ram slots, one slot will use one channel, and the other slot will use the other channel. If the Motherboard has four ram slots, one channel will use two slots (A1 and A2), and the second channel will use the other two slots (B1 and B2).

thank you some much