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Dual channel or not?
Ok I have a choice, 8gb single channel or 4gb dual channel.
What would be better for gaming? 8gb of ram I know is overkill but I ended up with that much out of a mistake, if I lose performance from going single channel 8gb ill just give the other 4gb to my bro. Anyways I don't have the mobo to test it yet so what would be faster? Thx.
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Why would you not be able to run the 8GB in Dual Channel?
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For gaming? 4GB dual channel would be slightly better. Games don't use more than 2GB basically so anything much more is not used. However, the benefits of dual-channel are pretty marginal.
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not sure why your not able to run 8gb in dual channel, unless they are differnt sets / revision chips, I needed to manually set mine to get my 5-4-4-15 and dual channel in my 680i lt bios. I noticed that when doing multiple encodings and playing 2 games afk in background and 1 in foreground that my system was more responsive then when i had 4gb in dualchan, but i'm not sure how many ppl encode w/ multiple programs and run 3 games @ the same time.
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Its a " ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe/HDMI AM2+/AM2" Im gonna just try both and see what is better, but im guessing that 4GB in dual chan will be enough but I like the idea of running multiple games in the background lol. 
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