3 sticks of ram

[rezo]

I currently have 16GB of ram (2x8 3200 MHz), I often hit 16000 MB of usage which is like 97.7% usage so I was considering buying a third stick of 8GB ram stick.

Will this cause the pair of ram to no longer work in dual channel mode or would it be the case that only 2 sticks will be running in dual channel and the third will just be in single channel?

I record a lot on OBS and that often uses 9-10GB of ram which only gives me 6GB left for games and other applications.

Many thanks, I just dont see the need to spend an extra £45 on a pair of 16GB when I only really need an extra 8GB.

[Illusion of Progress]

I'd get two more modules as opposed to one, whether it's 8 GB or 16 GB you add.

It doesn't have to exactly mirror your RAM, but try and at least meet (or better) the frequency and CL timings of your existing stuff so you don't LOSE performance. Unless you're going to push and overclock RAM beyond X.M.P./D.O.C.P. then it's probably not super important that they all perfectly match; just understand that if one set is capable of more, it will be held back by the other.

I've never really had issues mixing any RAM I've tried going all the way back to the SDRAM days (in those days it was so much mix and match with quantity and frequency and it always worked, albeit at the limiting factor's speed and CL timings, but it worked), though that's just my anecdotal experience.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Though 2 or 4 is best you can run 3.

And despite what has been talked about, unless you have a potatoe of a motherboard it should still run the memory in unganged DC mode, which is still a form of Dual Chanel, just with 2x64bit bus's instead of a unified single 128bit bus.

[rezo]

xSOSxHawkens eredeti hozzászólása:

Though 2 or 4 is best you can run 3.

And despite what has been talked about, unless you have a potatoe of a motherboard it should still run the memory in unganged DC mode, which is still a form of Dual Chanel, just with 2x64bit bus's instead of a unified single 128bit bus.

I have a Z390 board so it should be fine.