Memory for Skylake

euonline

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Hi,

when searching for memory to my new skylake build, mostly what I find available are quad channel kits made for X99.

I have been looking into some manufactures website and as an example I see that GSKill has produced dual channel kits for Z170, trident z and Ripjaws 5.

Is that pure marketing or is worthwhile wait a little until these dual channel kits availability on the market?

Thanks
 
As long as the kit is DDR4 in dual or quad it dont matter unless of course your board takes both so just pick one you like the look of at the best price you can get them
 
Besides you've got 4 slots anyways :D

I can understand if you dont want to pay for the extra if you dont need them though.
Probably give it a few months and you should start seeing them around.
 
A quad channel kit will also work in dual channel. Two dual channel kits will work in quad channel (provided they are the same kit (eg speeds, latency, preferably brand)).

The memory itself is just called quad channel cause it's in a package of 4 and can be used as quad channel out of the box. The actual technology behind this is on the memory controller on your CPU.

So if you can find a kit with 4 dimms, your 1151 board has 4 slots, and you won't feel the need to upgrade your RAM within the year (cause you'd have to buy a whole new kit rather than adding dimms) then you'll be golden and it will run in dual channel fine :)
 
DC kits are much cheaper though - a lot of the english retailers are selling 2 stick kits and prices have fallen through the floor
 
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