[phyrrus9]

@"mothered" that is great man! Would love to have so much RAM, is it also DDR4? Must be nice being able to run so much VM's without your laptop breaking a sweat.

Yes It's DDR4 @2667MHz, being 2 x 16GB sticks so I have 2 slots spare.

For Christmas I'll treat myself and purchase another 16GB, so all up I'll be running 64GB. Not that I'll be using the lot, but It's best to have more than enough than just enough. I purchased my lappy for 2,900$ so It's expected to perform well. The GTX 1070 (8GB) card can handle almost anything I throw at It.

This Is why I'm suggesting (and of course as you're very much aware) a "minimum" of 16GB of Ram.

I've never been a fan of the large sticks (unless they're quad ranks). Lower density = higher performance

[mothered]

I've never been a fan of the large sticks (unless they're quad ranks). Lower density = higher performance

I see what you mean and certainly agree.

Nonetheless, It'll still provide me with the available memory If and when needed. I'd rather have the reserve readily-available, than nothing to fall back on.

[phyrrus9]

I've never been a fan of the large sticks (unless they're quad ranks). Lower density = higher performance

I see what you mean and certainly agree.

Nonetheless, It'll still provide me with the available memory If and when needed. I'd rather have the reserve readily-available, than nothing to fall back on.

It's all up to the purpose of your build. That's what makes it so interesting, many people just look at CAS latency, clock speed, and size but don't stop to think that there are 10+ timing values, channeled clocks, data organization, electrical properties, etc involved.