All right, time to take the plunge (PC build advice)

[vlad321]

Khuutra said:

vlad321 said:

Haven't kept in touch since some time last year, but does the i5 sandy bridge chip support dual channel or tripple channel memory?

Edit: Nevermind found my own answer, yeah it's dual.

I'm not clear on what the difference would be, performance-wise. Or price-wise, for triple channel memory.

If it was like the older LGA 1366 architectures you would do much better to get triple channel RAM over dual channel (to simplify it, it basically goes in multiples of 3, not 2) and you'd eek out some better performance. The LGA 1155 (usual sandy bridge) does dual channel so you have nothing to worry about with your build. I was jsut wondering about the compatability.

Edit: From my brief research, I also heard that the i5 2500k is probably the most bang for the buck you can get.