Dual Kit DDR4 RAM (2x8GB) on a 8 slot mainboard?
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woeissick
October 11, 2014 1:24:42 PM
hey guys,
building an editing rig. I'll go with the MSI X99S SLI Plus mobo which has 8 RAM slots & a 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport RAM 2400, cl16 kit . First of I've been told to buy a 4x4GB kit because if I'd buy one or two 2x8GB kits it wouldn't work. Also only 2 sticks wouldn't work in a 8 slot mobo. ATM I only can afford 16GB of RAM but I'd like to upgrade in the future. Can I go with 2x8GB ram sticks just finewithout having problems running it ATM & no problems when I upgrade?
Thanks.
building an editing rig. I'll go with the MSI X99S SLI Plus mobo which has 8 RAM slots & a 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport RAM 2400, cl16 kit . First of I've been told to buy a 4x4GB kit because if I'd buy one or two 2x8GB kits it wouldn't work. Also only 2 sticks wouldn't work in a 8 slot mobo. ATM I only can afford 16GB of RAM but I'd like to upgrade in the future. Can I go with 2x8GB ram sticks just finewithout having problems running it ATM & no problems when I upgrade?
Thanks.
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woeissick
October 11, 2014 1:30:06 PM
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woeissick said:
TechCIDLC said:
Get 4X4GB, the motherboard supports quad-channel memory. And these 4 sticks, you don't put them in 1 side. You put 2 in 1 side, and 2 in the other one. When you get the motherboard, its manual will explain this.can I then easily upgrade with another 4x4GB kit to a total of 32GB?
Yep. But it's not worth it, it would be a waste of money.
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woeissick
October 11, 2014 1:36:49 PM
TechCIDLC said:
woeissick said:
TechCIDLC said:
Get 4X4GB, the motherboard supports quad-channel memory. And these 4 sticks, you don't put them in 1 side. You put 2 in 1 side, and 2 in the other one. When you get the motherboard, its manual will explain this.can I then easily upgrade with another 4x4GB kit to a total of 32GB?
Yep. But it's not worth it, it would be a waste of money.
it's not for me. 32gb would give me so much benifit that it would take less than a month to get that money back. Currently I'm on 1x8GB with a gtx660 lol. Was just wondering if it's even possible to run a 2x8GB kit on a 8 slot mobo.
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woeissick
October 11, 2014 1:44:23 PM
woeissick
October 12, 2014 5:48:07 AM
Tradesman1 said:
I'd stick with 16GB (and yes as mentioned, 2x8GB will work fine), but if thinking 64GB down the road, would wait till you can just get a 64GB set, mixing DRAM can be and often is problematic, and would be even more so adding 16GB at a timeby mixing do you also mean that if I would get 4 of 2x8GB kits of the exact same RAM sticks it'd still be problematic?
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I'd say a real strong possibility, if you were in the factory and pulled 10 sticks right off the assembly line as they finished, you might find 4 of them that will all play nice together, might not even find 4 that will, that one reason the prices are higher for 4 stick sets, it takes more testing to find sticks that will play nice fo a 4 or 8 stick set
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woeissick
October 13, 2014 3:24:51 AM
Tradesman1 said:
I'd say a real strong possibility, if you were in the factory and pulled 10 sticks right off the assembly line as they finished, you might find 4 of them that will all play nice together, might not even find 4 that will, that one reason the prices are higher for 4 stick sets, it takes more testing to find sticks that will play nice fo a 4 or 8 stick setthat's a shame. Anyway, thanks for taking Your time.
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