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8GB alone is no where near enough.
Your OS will use 2-4GB right at bootup; that doesn't leave enough for Games.
Dual-channel has some impact, bigger on Ryzen PCs and especially on Ryzen APUs but not having free slot if you need to upgrade later is annoying too.
Not unless all you plan to run is a stripped down OS Startup, and then just the game client + game. You sure as hell can't multi-task with 8GB
Games today need 8-12GB of RAM by itself.
The entire system and OS benefits from Dual Channel RAM; since it will always be running at that rate.
Also like others have said, 2x8 is the bare minimum to function today. Even 20 tabs in chrome + base OS would eat up 8GB of ram. Good thing you don't want to play star citizen any time soon.. that game requires 32GB.
Im not saying the time won’t come, but just for the time being, for like a few months, it will suffice
Yes but there’s also the possibility that I want to get more ram in the future, and I’m wondering whether or not it would be worth it to just use dual channel or leave one open.
Definitely not planning on playing star citizen
Ark: Survival Evolved is at least one title that will eat up 10~12GB of system ram and 5~7GB Vram on max settings @ 1080p, there's other titles.
8GB of system ram on windows 10 is going to lead to a miserable, poor gaming experience in most games. We tried to warn you. Running single-channel and reducing your ram speed by -40% isn't going to help matters either.
At least I kind of got an answer to my question...
Are you sure that isn’t a little bit of an exaggeration? Not that I know it’s just that it would help us make the decision