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Despite high memory prices, 007 First Light system requirements recommend 32GB RAM for 1080p (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Recommended settings are for the average user to plug it in and get that performance. Have windows doing stuff in the background, a couple chrome tabs open and you need more than 16GB. 18-30GB are not valid ram configs on intel desktop or AM4/5 so 32GB is the closest.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    18-30 GB is completely valid... If you have 4 sockets in your computer, nothing is stopping you from adding 2x4 GB sticks and 2x8 GB sticks for a total of 24 GB. And you can even still run at full dual channel speeds...

    It's not that common, as most people don't mix the sizes of the sticks... But as long as each dual channel pair is of the same size, and the slowest stick timing is good enough, there's no trouble.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Those are not valid configs for AM4/5. You cannot mix IC in them to work right and you would have 3 ranks per channel on DDR4 so it would not work correctly as you need one or a power of 2. You could technically get single rank ram sticks from micron that are 12GB, but the cost is more than 16GB sticks so I would go back to not a valid option. You could run one 24GB stick as well, but you should not be recommending that.

    You could run less than one command per clock and make it work with mixed configs, but it is just a bad idea and not recommended or in spec.

    If you had socked 1366 or one of the HEDT quad channel set ups running with one stick since a stick or slot died, then sure it would be a valid config.

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