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okay so why does memory come with more than one stick in a kit what are these

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channels everyone's always talking about find out everything you need to know

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about RAM channels as fast as possible by watching this video When shopping for

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computer memory there's all kinds of specs to pay attention to including the

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frequency the timings the voltage and how many sticks actually come in the kit

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and how many channels they're rated for you can usually tell by the little

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number on the memory itself or on the box showing you how many pieces are

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intended to be in the kit that's normally how many channels it's intended

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to be operated in before you buy your memory you need to check your

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motherboard or computer system to find out how many channels it supports the

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easiest way to do this is the manual or the manufacturer website but failing

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that you can check the labels on the motherboard itself or you can usually

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tell by checking for colorcoded memory slots so they are normally coded with

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all the same colors for how many sticks

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you're supposed to populate at a time with one kit this particular board is a

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quad Channel board which means it has four slots that are one color and four

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slots that are another color that doesn't mean that you have to run quad

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Channel kits in it it just means that that's what will yield the best

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performance now A Memory kit is just a

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bunch of individual memory sticks that are validated to work with each other

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flawlessly in however many Channel operation it's rated for so in this case

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a quad Channel kit could be reduced to a triple Channel kit or a dual Channel kit

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just by taking memory sticks away because all those sticks are still

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validated to work with each other normally that is to say that you could

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normally take a quad Channel kit install all four sticks in a dual Channel

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motherboard and it would operate in dual Channel with your full capacity full

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performance and everything normally I said normally an awful lot of

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times in that last shot there there's a reason for that this is a quad Channel

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kit could I install it in a dual Channel board sure yes would it work probably

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there are primary timings which the manufacturer tells you so so if it

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doesn't detect correctly in your dual Channel board you could easily change

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them around but there are actually more timings in fact some boards will give

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you access to secondary and even tertiary timings on the memory that can

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be optimized to work with a particular platform if the manufacturer sells you a

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quad Channel kit they're expecting you to use it in an LGA 2011 board not an

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1156 1155 or am3 board if you want to

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run in dual Channel generally speaking buy a dual Channel kit if you want to

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run in Quad Channel don't buy two dual Channel kits cuz they might work but

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you're better off to buy a quad Channel kit cuz sometimes those optimizations

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even though there's nothing wrong with the memory and nothing wrong with the board can cause stability issues and

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they can be difficult to override and to diagnose now I'm not going to try and

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convince you that if you mix and match your memory your system's going to

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explode and it's not going to work at all cuz there's a good chance it actually will however if you're

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populating your memory with unmatched sticks there is a chance that they won't

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operate in dual Channel or triple Channel or quad Channel or whatever your

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motherboard is rated for which can negatively impact your performance in

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fact in this board right here I've got a triple Channel kit installed in a dual

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Channel motherboard which can on some boards actually reduce the entire memory

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bank to single Channel performance so if

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you need the extra RAM capacity more than you need the bandwidth there can

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still be a benefit to doing this but in most cases it's not ideal you're better

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off to take one stick out or add another matching stick another example would be

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a quad Channel motherboard with a single stick installed this example gives you

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one qu of the total bandwidth that that CPU might need or that that motherboard

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is capable of delivering so it's just not an optimal

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