• HakFoo
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    4 days ago

    Wouldn’t two half-sized sticks perform better?

    I thought dual-channel RAM was a thing at least as far back as the original Socket A nForce chipset.

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      4 days ago

      You would get some amount of increased performance from dual 8 GB chips, yes, but getting 1x16 GB chip allows you to upgrade to 32 GB later for the cost of 1 more 16 GB chip, instead of having to get a 2x16 GB set. Can be much more economical, especially with prices these days.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Why not just sell two 8 gig sticks? You get more channels that way anyways and it’s the ram that is expensive not the stick you mount it on.