You couldn’t ask a buddy to borrow a stick or something? This generation is dual channel with single stick. Perf loss from single stick isn’t so bad… and you definitely don’t need 64GB+ of memory for the majority of use cases, which is where quad stick ddr5 is as a minimum.
Thought it was usually recommended to use paired sticks since sometimes buying from different batches can cause issues with stability when trying to use xmp/expo
Though maybe that’s outdated advice and newer stuff plays better together.
NEVER buy a “kit”, anyways!!
IF 1 single stick is bad, but you bought 4 as a “kit”, now you have to ship ALL 4 back, for RMA!!
ONLY buy single-sticks.
Don’t get burned like I did!
( no RAM for a few weeks, until they’ve confirmed, & got around to issuing a replacement, sucks )
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You couldn’t ask a buddy to borrow a stick or something? This generation is dual channel with single stick. Perf loss from single stick isn’t so bad… and you definitely don’t need 64GB+ of memory for the majority of use cases, which is where quad stick ddr5 is as a minimum.
Thought it was usually recommended to use paired sticks since sometimes buying from different batches can cause issues with stability when trying to use xmp/expo
Though maybe that’s outdated advice and newer stuff plays better together.
The tolerances are tight-enough that “paired sticks” are just sticks from the same bin.
It’s a scam, unless you’re overclocking, & running the things outside of their rated voltages/speeds, in which case you’re gambling anyways.
It breaks people getting return-on-a-single-stick, & that may be good for the corporation, but it’s bad for the customer.
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