Basic RAM question

All else being equal, which is faster two 2gig sticks of RAM or four 1gig sticks of RAM?

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congrats on 800 posts, and yes you're right. The less sticks the better, but i think that 2x2gb might be faster than 1x4gb. i think dual, or even triple channel would increase the performance more than having one DIMM.

+1

+1 ! 2x2g is cheap and NICE atm !

filling all 4 DIMM slots puts more stress on the Northbridge.

Ditto 2 x 2.

G.Skill now have 2 x 2GB @ 4-4-4-12 e.g.:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 134-3.html

"At $50, the G.SILL Pi Black was just the memory we needed. Worth mentioning is the tall heatsinks would prevent use of 4 of these sticks unless we changed CPU coolers. "


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