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tjlmbklr1

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1. January 2010 @ 14:15

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I have most of what I need to get my system running. I bought a i5-750/Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R Motherboard combo. I have a 1Tb Seagate HDD (for starters). A 750 Watt Ultra Power supply. A comparable Asus EAH 4650 Radeon 1GB DDR2 graphics card. This card should be good enough for what I need (I hope).

This will be mostly used as a media PC. Some video/graphic editing and lots of web browsing. OC-ing may be something I want to look into in the future but will be happy to finally just turn it on.

Only really things left are a optical drive, OS (which I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit), and the most important; Memory.

So this begs the question what is good memory to run in this system. I have the opportunity to buy a Triple Channel 6gb Consair 1600 for cheap from a friend They are basically new. I know my MB is a a dual channel set up but am not sure if I can buy this memory and only use 4Gb (2 sticks as apposed to 3).

All opinions will be considered.

Thanks in advance.

TJ

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krj15489

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2. January 2010 @ 13:31

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If you buy the triple channel 6gb kit and only use two in daul channel that would work just fine. If you want to use all of it you should buy another 2gb 1600mhz stick and put it with the other 3. Then you will have 8gb in dual channel. Otherwise, if you use the three stick the system will only run in single channel. This will cause performance to drop in some applications.

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tjlmbklr1

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7. January 2010 @ 21:12

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Originally posted by krj15489:
If you buy the triple channel 6gb kit and only use two in daul channel that would work just fine. If you want to use all of it you should buy another 2gb 1600mhz stick and put it with the other 3. Then you will have 8gb in dual channel. Otherwise, if you use the three stick the system will only run in single channel. This will cause performance to drop in some applications.

This is waht I figured, Thanks!

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