Building a PC for £400

[sastusbulbas]

Try around 2% difference, which you claw back when you add another 8GB stick anyway, and it doesn't have to be identical as they can just run JEDEC 2133MHz on that board if not XMP or manual speed/timings, and you save a nice chunk of money in doing so.

The main benefit of dual channel (10%+/-) is for running iGPU. Some tasks actually benefit from single channel so it evens out.


If modern games will be played at some point, some of them already reserve, if not actually use, more than 8GB. In combination with other start-up programs and a browser window or two open.


So yes, you might squeeze out a tiny bit more performance right now, but to say there isn't any point isn't accurate.

The majority of google searches show various degrees of difference. Marginal, but usefull enough for manufacturers to have implimented it in the 1st place, and not with gaming in mind. Personally I see no saving a nice chunk of money, if he is interested in saving then a budget gaming PC for £400 is the wrong place to start pondering £3 saving for a possible 16gb of future memory usage.


Pretty sure you will get more interest in 2x4gb of the listed memory at a later resale on an auction site than that single 8gb stick too.


I was under the impression it was a budget gaming system for medium to high settings at 1080p, and with that core spec would remain so for some time, so there actually would be little benefit from 16gb of memory within the system spec and game resolution abilities. The system is never going to be anything other than a budget/mid gaming system with that core spec. If your saying titles are now starting to require 16gb at budget card resolutions then why are we looking at a £400 spec gaming system?


Personally, I would only buy 8gb for a budget gaming system, and dual for the marginal benefit and resale ease, and when the time comes that that amount is not enough, THEN simply buy a new kit, or other system upgrades, the rest of the spec may well be letting him down way before 8gb does.
But it's only my opinion, my preference. Not enough of a difference in performance to care about on that alone, future costs, availability, actual benefit, resale values, aesthetics and compatability issues are more of an interest.

 

[Drake5]

I built the spec with the 470 - Got it all together now and it's working - Only thing is I have no fans at the moment as I didn't have the screws. Will the PC be ok with the side panel off without fans