two stick or four?

buzzlightweight · 11 Feb 2011 at 20:15

sorry to sound noobish, i am going to be buying a sandy bridge i7 and was wondering for OC'ing is it better to have two or four sticks. high ram would be nice as i will be running progams like dreamwaever cs5, photoshop cs5 at the same time.

many thanks

Orcvader · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:17

Two sticks will be better as it will strain the memory controller less compared to four sticks. You can get 2x4gb sets and 8gb should be enough

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Beerbaron · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:21

What Orcvader said. 2 sticks are better especially when overclocking

DIABLO · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:27

It only has a bearing on if you plan to overclock the RAM, the amount of sticks will not effect the CPU overclocking as Sandybridge overclocking is purely multiplier based not upping the bclk.