Populating Ram slots.

[MyFartSoTart]

Hi guys i'm working on my first build and i stumbled upon a theory that didn't make sense. Someone said you should populate all the motherboard ram slots you can. My motherboard has 4 ram slots and i was planning to go for 16 gigs of ram. Should i buy 2 sticks of 8 gig ram or 4 sticks of 4 gig ram. I kinda like the 4 sticks option better because im getting rgb ram and 4 sticks would look better than 2? Will 4 sticks be any different than 2? If not ill just go with 4 sticks. Thx

[Mira Yurizaki]

There's no benefit in filling up your RAM slots. If you want to populate all four slots for looks, that's on you.

[Fasauceome]

9 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

There's no benefit in filling up your RAM slots. If you want to populate all four slots for looks, that's on you.

In fact sometimes it's a detriment, Ryzen does worse with more dimms per channel

[MyFartSoTart]

20 hours ago, fasauceome said:

In fact sometimes it's a detriment, Ryzen does worse with more dimms per channel

But I'm using Intel so would it slow my pc down to get 4 sticks? I would like to get 4 if not. Not if it would slow down my pc though.

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, MyFartSoTart said:

But I'm using Intel so would it slow my pc down to get 4 sticks? I would like to get 4 if not. Not if it would slow down my pc though.

For gaming? Intel isn't particularly affected by ram population. I say go for it if you want.

[MyFartSoTart]

2 hours ago, fasauceome said:

For gaming? Intel isn't particularly affected by ram population. I say go for it if you want.

Alright thx this somehow made me even more excited about this build.