Will one stick of DDR3 be OK?

[Gentoo]

Putting a low cost system together for my kids. I accidentally got a single stick of 8gb DDR3 instead of a 4gb x 2 kit.

Will this work OK on a H77 chipset board?

If there is a performance hit, how much will it be?

Thanks!

 

[2is]

It will still work, for most things the performance hit is quite small. That said, if you're using the IGP instead of a discrete card, you'll certainly want two stick for dual channel. Memory bandwidth is a big deal for video.

 

[Gentoo]

I've got an ATI 6770 that I'm going to use for the video.

 

[2is]

You should be fine then, for the majority if tasks the difference is small enough to be unnoticeable.

 

[Gentoo]

Awesome, thanks for the info.

 

[nightspydk]

Agreed.

You have to consider the total system. Where is the bottleneck. That you have extremely fats tri-channel ram (like me 😛) doesn't make the system fast if the busses cannot cope. All have to be in some kind of alignment. 🙂

 

[Gentoo]

Yeah I think sometimes I get lost in forest looking for the trees.

The system is just for playing ABC mouse, My Little Pony & Spongebob browser games, and a few other things like that.

Probably the most taxing games will be Counter Strike Source and World of Warcraft.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

It'll be fiiiiine.

 

[tweakboy]

It will be single channel ... 🙁 wtf ram is 30 bucks for 8GB dual memory.