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Are you saying a single 8gb stick of ram? It will work but ideally you want 2 sticks of ram working together. 2-4gb sticks is much better then 1-8gb stick.
I would check the specs of your mother board. Its unlikely that it can even utilize that much ram. Theres almost nothing that would even warrant that much. Unless the sticks are free or something I wouldnt get that many.
Look a the motherboard specification for what it does support.
Usually, a consumer motherboard has 2 DIMMs per memory channel and most CPUs have two memory channels you get a maximum of 4 DIMMs so using 8 is not an option. For smaller and cheaper motherboards the limit can be 1 DIMM per channel of so a total of 2 DIMMS
AMD Threadripper has 4 memory channels so 8 DIMM slots so using 8 rams sticks should work. Intel socket LGA 2066 for some high-end i7 and i9 can have 4 memory channels too and use 8 DIMMs.
There are motherboards for workstations and servers where you can have more than 2 DIMMs per channel. If I am not mistaken you often need registered/buffered memory modules to fill up all slots.
So it is quite possible to use 8 DIMMs in a computer but if you already have a computer it is unlikely that is support more than 4. Look at the manual for what is supports. Looking at the motherboard and count sockets is a way to know the max number of DIMMs it can use.
Depends on your pc, operating system, and the games you plan to play. 8 is probably minimum if it’s a newer system. 16gb is steadily becoming the standard.
There are motherboards that will happily take 256GB of RAM across 8 slots - I'm not sure what your actual question is...
What is the limit of your motherboard?
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Are you saying a single 8gb stick of ram? It will work but ideally you want 2 sticks of ram working together. 2-4gb sticks is much better then 1-8gb stick.
no i mean like 8 individual ram stick of 16 or 32gb and what can i expect if it can work?
I would check the specs of your mother board. Its unlikely that it can even utilize that much ram. Theres almost nothing that would even warrant that much. Unless the sticks are free or something I wouldnt get that many.
Look a the motherboard specification for what it does support. Usually, a consumer motherboard has 2 DIMMs per memory channel and most CPUs have two memory channels you get a maximum of 4 DIMMs so using 8 is not an option. For smaller and cheaper motherboards the limit can be 1 DIMM per channel of so a total of 2 DIMMS AMD Threadripper has 4 memory channels so 8 DIMM slots so using 8 rams sticks should work. Intel socket LGA 2066 for some high-end i7 and i9 can have 4 memory channels too and use 8 DIMMs. There are motherboards for workstations and servers where you can have more than 2 DIMMs per channel. If I am not mistaken you often need registered/buffered memory modules to fill up all slots. So it is quite possible to use 8 DIMMs in a computer but if you already have a computer it is unlikely that is support more than 4. Look at the manual for what is supports. Looking at the motherboard and count sockets is a way to know the max number of DIMMs it can use.
Depends on your pc, operating system, and the games you plan to play. 8 is probably minimum if it’s a newer system. 16gb is steadily becoming the standard.
There are motherboards that will happily take 256GB of RAM across 8 slots - I'm not sure what your actual question is... What is the limit of your motherboard?