Thought it was usually recommended to use paired sticks since sometimes buying from different batches can cause issues with stability when trying to use xmp/expo
Though maybe that’s outdated advice and newer stuff plays better together.
From what I’ve heard, this advice has gotten more relevant with DDR5 rather than less, to the point that CAMM2 modules just bundle both “sticks” onto one package. That’s probably also a packaging design choice, to be fair.
You couldn’t ask a buddy to borrow a stick or something? This generation is dual channel with single stick. Perf loss from single stick isn’t so bad… and you definitely don’t need 64GB+ of memory for the majority of use cases, which is where quad stick ddr5 is as a minimum.
NEVER buy a “kit”, anyways!!
IF 1 single stick is bad, but you bought 4 as a “kit”, now you have to ship ALL 4 back, for RMA!!
ONLY buy single-sticks.
Don’t get burned like I did!
( no RAM for a few weeks, until they’ve confirmed, & got around to issuing a replacement, sucks )
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Thought it was usually recommended to use paired sticks since sometimes buying from different batches can cause issues with stability when trying to use xmp/expo
Though maybe that’s outdated advice and newer stuff plays better together.
From what I’ve heard, this advice has gotten more relevant with DDR5 rather than less, to the point that CAMM2 modules just bundle both “sticks” onto one package. That’s probably also a packaging design choice, to be fair.
You couldn’t ask a buddy to borrow a stick or something? This generation is dual channel with single stick. Perf loss from single stick isn’t so bad… and you definitely don’t need 64GB+ of memory for the majority of use cases, which is where quad stick ddr5 is as a minimum.