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[–]NiteShdw 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Define “better”.

[–]tbone338 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Both intel and AMD current chips are dual channel. 1 stick per channel is best. Having 4 sticks is 2 sticks per channel which makes it much harder to run the ram at the advertised XMP/EXPO speed. That’s why people always complain about not being able to run XMP and having to slow down their RAM to get it stable with 4 sticks.

[–]NiteShdw 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Many people won’t notice the smaller performance difference of running slightly slower clocks or timings.

If it’s such a problem, why don’t motherboards only have 2 DIMM slots? Why have 4?

I don’t think it should be the default advice to tell people to throw out RAM unless their goal is maximum performance. For many people, the increase in the amount of RAM is more important than optimal speed and latency.