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I am planning to buy a new PC. The mainboard has 4 memory slots, The PC has Windows 7 64-bit installed.

Which approach is better regarding the performance buying:

  1. Two memory sticks of 2GB?
  2. One memory stick of 4GB?

I am also interested in dual channel memory architecture.

Ahmad Kayyali
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2 sticks in general because you get dual channeling. But more memory will always beat out dual channel for general workloads.

surfasb
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Buy the single stick of the largest possible (8GB currently) and upgrade later for even more performance to a second stick so you can get the dual channel feature.

Pacerier
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Matias Vad
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How 'bout 2 4GB sticks? It's not like it's expensive (<$50 right now on newegg).

Two sticks are nearly always better, as you'll be able to get dual channel mode.

Joel Coehoorn
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