I don't understand how maximizing the chance of getting or developing bad RAM for no increased performance and usually higher price is the best thing you can do, I really don't.MartijnV wrote:I disagree with most of above here,
But the best thing you can do is spreading the GB's over much sticks as possible
RAM is limited by Bus speed, one Bus per stick up to the maximum supported number of Buses is the best you can get, the amount of "Channels" declares the number of RAM data Bus(s) on the board.
Thus you receive no benefit in having 4 or 8 RAM sticks on a dual channel motherboard, as it's simply using half of the ram per Bus.
The only way it really makes sense is if you plan to upgrade your RAM to a larger capacity in the future and don't want to invest in it immediately, in which case you get half of what you want to have in the end, and then double it when you can afford too.
ex: You want 32GB total, but can't afford it atm, and you have a Dual Channel board with 4 slots, so you get 2 8GB sticks, and put them in the proper configuration for Dual Channel. Then later on when you can/want to buy the rest, you get (Ideally) the same 2 sticks from before and put them in the remaining slots, thus doubling the RAM capacity, though not it's operational speed.
Typically large amounts of RAM is used for servers, workstation builds, or people who love using RAM Disc for whatever reason.
edit: Anyways the build looks P good for the most part. Though if you're planning on those 2 separate HDDs you're getting being permanent drives for that build, you might consider getting 2 of the same HDDs and putting them in RAID 0 or something to increase their read/write speed for shits and giggles.