Why are almost all ATX motherboards 4 DIMM when running 2 ram sticks optimal and all most people need

ooStevo · Tuesday at 19:49

ATIorNvidia said:
Worth it as in will you see tangible gains outside of synthetic benchmarks? No.

You'd also need to run your FCLK at 2000MHz for it to make sense, and very few CPU's can do that stable. Most top out at 1900MHz.

I'll pretend to understand what you said. I understand somewhat. (Is it like fsb) So basically it's not worth it?

Mcnumpty2323 · Tuesday at 20:03

ooStevo said:
I'll pretend to understand what you said. I understand somewhat. (Is it like fsb) So basically it's not worth it?

It's the infinity fabric
For 3600mhz ram infinity fabric you want 1800
If you left infinity fabric at 1800
But got ram at 4000mhz
Then it would operate in a non ideal ratio

ooStevo · Tuesday at 22:27

Ok,so it's a balancing act. Probably not worth it for performance, but fun to tinker. Thanks for the help.

Blackjack Davy · Tuesday at 22:47

Mcnumpty2323 said:
Probably showing my age here lol
But didn't we have triple channel ram way back when?
Pure guess as my memory sucks
Maybe in the days of i7 920 era?

Indeed I had 3 sticks of Corsair ram 3 x 4gb = 12gb

ooStevo · Wednesday at 02:55

Blackjack Davy said:
Indeed I had 3 sticks of Corsair ram 3 x 4gb = 12gb

I have an X58 system here with 6x2gb. It's actually a quick system tbh.