Hi,
I need to upgrade the ram of my system to 64 GB which I use for cryo-electron microscopy - (datasets in the order of 0.5-2 TB), NMR data analysis and large amounts of curve fittings and image processing (e.g 2000+ Boltzmann equations in one dataset). I am unsure on what is the best approach for a dual-channel motherboard (z170) to not stress the memory controller since I have not much knowledge about RAM. The laptop is the one in my sig.
Possible configurations I thought of:
4x 16 GB dual DDR4 sticks
-Either Crucial Ballistix (2.4/2.66 GHz, CL16, 250 GBP either), HyperX Impact (2,4 GHz-CL14; 2.66 GHz-CL15, 250 GBP either, or 2.93 GHz-CL17, 380 GBP), or gSkill Ripjaws (3.0 GHz-CL16, 400 GBP); I am not sure if the 2.93 sticks are worth it as the price hike is 50% more when compared to the 2.66 ones.
4x 16 GB single DDR4 sticks or 2X 32 GB dual channel DDR4 sticks (don´t know if this exists, though I have seen some 32 GB sticks in Crucial and Dell websites) to keep the total channels to 4.
Does anybody have experience with this kind of setup? I would rather use me laptop as I already have it and need to travel with my data quite frequently. I do not intend to overclock these so running at slower frequencies is not a huge problem for me.
I need to upgrade the ram of my system to 64 GB which I use for cryo-electron microscopy - (datasets in the order of 0.5-2 TB), NMR data analysis and large amounts of curve fittings and image processing (e.g 2000+ Boltzmann equations in one dataset). I am unsure on what is the best approach for a dual-channel motherboard (z170) to not stress the memory controller since I have not much knowledge about RAM. The laptop is the one in my sig.
Possible configurations I thought of:
4x 16 GB dual DDR4 sticks
-Either Crucial Ballistix (2.4/2.66 GHz, CL16, 250 GBP either), HyperX Impact (2,4 GHz-CL14; 2.66 GHz-CL15, 250 GBP either, or 2.93 GHz-CL17, 380 GBP), or gSkill Ripjaws (3.0 GHz-CL16, 400 GBP); I am not sure if the 2.93 sticks are worth it as the price hike is 50% more when compared to the 2.66 ones.
4x 16 GB single DDR4 sticks or 2X 32 GB dual channel DDR4 sticks (don´t know if this exists, though I have seen some 32 GB sticks in Crucial and Dell websites) to keep the total channels to 4.
Does anybody have experience with this kind of setup? I would rather use me laptop as I already have it and need to travel with my data quite frequently. I do not intend to overclock these so running at slower frequencies is not a huge problem for me.
