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ddr3 in groups of 3 or 6?

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DeadBatteries

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"What this means is that instead of putting in either two or four memory modules to fully realize the speed of your desktop's memory, you're going to need either three or six. In this case, Dell populated the slots with six 1GB sticks of DDR3 memory"

I was reading this and then i tried to look for stuff about it and i couldn't find anything. The reason why it concerns me is that i just bought a computer with 4gb of ddr3. is this bad? how much of a difference does this make?
 
It only matters for Core i7 CPUs, and even then the only noticeable difference is in memory benchmarks. If that.
 
yeah the computer i got has an i7 cpu and 4 gigs of ram... will the difference be that big?

if say it is 4gb of memory is spread out as 1 gig of memory in each slot... would it be better if i just take out the extra stick of ram?

edit: it is dual channel ddr3 instead of trichannel ddr3 if that makes a difference.

edit: actually i think that kind of answers my question right there. i suppose with trichannel it would make sense to group in 3 or 6, whereas dual channel can be the standard 2 or 4, ddr3 or not.
 
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