Hey all.
A couple of months ago i picked up a Asus SCAR 17" GL703GS laptop and for the most part i'm pretty happy with it.
In a few games i thought i was being CPU limited as i'd set my refresh rate to 144hz but some games would hover around 70-80FPS with only about 75% GPU usage.
It was only until i stumbled across Bob of all trades review of the Aero 15x which he mentioned and showed the before and after improvements from going single to dual channel. This seemed to pretty much removes any memory bottleneck and his 1070 max-q was performing about 15fps on average better than my full mobile 1070.
What a silly decision on ASUS's part to do this. Seeing as its a "gaming laptop" i'd expect it to be configured to primarily game and game pretty well. It's not even really a cost thing of 1 stick vs 2 as it works out nearly the same. I suppose theres only one stick in there as a upgrade path to add more ram but seeing how important dual channel memory appears to be it would be nigh on impossible to get another stick to work in dual channel properly as they wont be matched pairs.
So, that means ill either have to replace the single 16GB stick with a pair of 8's or go all in on 2 x16gb sticks which is pretty pricey and not really needed.
Ideally i'd like to just chuck in another 16gb stick but im reading mixed things online about getting a new stick to run in dual channel.
@Loki any advice would be appreciated on if its possible to just add another 16gb stick or will i have to replace both to get them running in dual channel.
Cheers!
A couple of months ago i picked up a Asus SCAR 17" GL703GS laptop and for the most part i'm pretty happy with it.
In a few games i thought i was being CPU limited as i'd set my refresh rate to 144hz but some games would hover around 70-80FPS with only about 75% GPU usage.
It was only until i stumbled across Bob of all trades review of the Aero 15x which he mentioned and showed the before and after improvements from going single to dual channel. This seemed to pretty much removes any memory bottleneck and his 1070 max-q was performing about 15fps on average better than my full mobile 1070.
What a silly decision on ASUS's part to do this. Seeing as its a "gaming laptop" i'd expect it to be configured to primarily game and game pretty well. It's not even really a cost thing of 1 stick vs 2 as it works out nearly the same. I suppose theres only one stick in there as a upgrade path to add more ram but seeing how important dual channel memory appears to be it would be nigh on impossible to get another stick to work in dual channel properly as they wont be matched pairs.
So, that means ill either have to replace the single 16GB stick with a pair of 8's or go all in on 2 x16gb sticks which is pretty pricey and not really needed.
Ideally i'd like to just chuck in another 16gb stick but im reading mixed things online about getting a new stick to run in dual channel.
@Loki any advice would be appreciated on if its possible to just add another 16gb stick or will i have to replace both to get them running in dual channel.
Cheers!