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Question Back: Does quad channel perform better than dual?

I'm just saving money and don't want to make big budget purchase. In some games YES in some other games NO with AMD Yes and with Intel NO. Some games work better with less RAM at higher speeds some games work better more RAM at the same speed. Until the game developers start requiring more...

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I have to make sure that people don't think that having dual channel as compared to single channel really matters for gaming.

" Single Channel vs. Dual Channel Theoretically, Dual Channel memory mode does means double bandwidth but in gaming, you won’t really notice any difference compared to single-channel mode. The only thing that matters is the amount of RAM, so it is better to get more memory rather than anything else.

I'm almost positive that your setup will not game as well as my setup despite having less RAM with an older card. Benchmarks don't tell the picture. I think that needing more than 8 GBs of RAM is a fallacy in todays market.

I would say wait until the new Playstation/Xbox comes out and developers will (hopefully) develop great graphics over time that will make use of a higher CPU core counts. By that time, it may be time to invest in the Newest - yet not released AMD and Intel chips and motherboards. But I am...

Thanks for your replies... The reason behind that build is that I am basing it on my current setup. I have an i5-2500k @ 4.8 GHz and one of my RAM sticks burnt out so I am using just 8 gigabytes at 1607 MHz. Additionally I have an 1080 Ti Reference card with an 1440p monitor. To this day I have...

PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor ($94.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($154.99) Memory: Patriot Viper Steel 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($34.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Mushkin Enhanced RAW 240 GB 2.5" Solid...