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one if you want us to make a video showing you what what's in this ultrawide Heroes box that I just got in the mail from LG the Corsair HX 1200 I power supply delivers 80 plus Platinum efficiency for quiet performance and Corsair link digital Advanced monitoring and control click now to learn more we don't do videos about memory kits very often these days so when we do we like to make them count so instead of just doing a bunch of sexy unboxing footage where I tell you guys about how your memory kit with its customizable and color changeable light bars and sexy heat spreader design should you wish to spend this much on it will come in a custom box that was specially made for eight dim sets and includes two matched trays of quad Channel ddr4 memory running at 2400 MHz with Dominator airflow coolers to go on each side of your motherboard for maximum Cooling and sex appeal instead of doing that I'll find something interesting to investigate and bring you guys along for the ride so not that long ago we determined that even for a high performance quad core processor DDR3 versus ddr4 didn't impact performance much in desktop applications but I want to take it further this time and find out if we need quad Channel ddr4 RAM if we kick things up a notch and throw in 18 core 36 thread Pro processor at the same multi-threaded benchmarks so I fired this baby up on my usual ASUS x99 Deluxe test bench I was only able to get the RAM running at 2133 MHz by the way but I know that my Zeon has trouble with highspeed memory and when I tried it on a 5960x it worked fine and that shouldn't affect our test results much anyway and then I ran my Suite of benchmarks with 128 GB of RAM in the system then I was all geared up to slowly ramp it down and run it in triple Channel and then dual Channel and then single Channel when I realized I'm really not expecting this to make any difference anyway so let's just drop her straight down to 16 gigs of memory which amazingly is one single stick of this RAM and then see how the benchmarks go and as expected going from single all the way to quad Channel makes pretty much no difference in anything but our seven zip compression Benchmark and synthetic memory bandwidth tests and in those cases we were nowhere near filling up all 128 GB of our memory either which leads us to the conclusion already who and what is this RAM for well it's for people who want the ultimate bragging rights to make their epen bigger regardless of the cost and I guess there is something brag worthy about having literally the same amount of RAM as your buddy has storage space on his boot SSD even if it will be years before desktop workloads benefit from this kind of a config and anyone running that many virtual machines or any of the simulation or rendering workloads that can benefit from this much memory should probably be using ECC registered dims in a server or workstation anyway it's just that this is a lot sexier speaking of sexy Squarespace build a 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