[The Bottleneck Effect] How to boost your gaming performance with up to 37%, just by choosing the correct memory type

What exactly do 1Rx8 and 1Rx16 mean? Well, simply said, memory is divided into ranks (the R in the aforementioned sequence of characters) of 64 bits. x8 means that 64 bits are divided by 8, to get 8 chips on a stick of memory. Respectively x16 means you get 4 chips on the board.

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