memory question for socket 1366 gigabyte sniper

Leebob17 · 2 Oct 2012 at 18:28

I have a gigabyte sniper motherboard on 1366 socket running an I7 920 at 4.2 i was looking at memory options and my board seems to support dual and triple memory so my question is this...

would it be better to install 3x4gb sticks and run in triple channel or 4x4gb and run in dual? also could i run a 4x4gb kit of vengeance in triple or does it just not work?

thanks

mattup · 2 Oct 2012 at 19:13

Triple.

You have to install 3 sticks or 6.

Matt

Surveyor · 2 Oct 2012 at 19:16

You can use triple channel mode with 3 or 4 sticks of RAM so the choice is yours.

mattup · 2 Oct 2012 at 19:38

Well you learn something new every day.

Matt

ZXSpectrum · 3 Oct 2012 at 16:28

I am pretty sure that if you use more that 3 sticks in triple channel your memory performance goes down the toilet. This is why the original Intel Smackover board X58 was a complete disaster. Intel stated that there would be no performance degredation in using 4 sticks in the board (Apparently still triple channel) to get 16gb but the memory bandwidth dropped by a great amount. I tested it myself and they later said they had received the incorrect specifications.. lol I love Intel..

llamadal · 5 Oct 2012 at 13:50

Hi Leebob,

I have just got the same mobo, if you dont mind me asking, what's your settings for that over clock please? I've tried a few bits but it's been a very long time since I over clocked anything. cheers

llamadal · 5 Oct 2012 at 13:53

id also be interested to find out what ram setup would be good to get the best out of the board

bru · 7 Oct 2012 at 12:12

To be honest unless your looking at benchmark numbers all day you wont notice the difference between triple and dual channel memory configurations.
I run 8GB (2x4) dual channel in my Gb x58a ud3r and in memory benchmarks it was a 10% drop in numbers but in general usage including games I haven't noticed a difference at all.