Ram Memory banks used.

Question

I was wondering how the CPU is using memory banks and stick from another point of view.

For example if i have 4 stick of 16 GB of RAM (a total of 64 GB of RAM) and windows is using only 6 GB RAM does only 1 stick of RAM is used and others are in an idle state.

OR every memory stick is used and data is spread around all memory sticks and banks.

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Answer 1

In most cases it’s distributed for performance benefits. If you can use them in parallel, there’s far less of a bottleneck to the DIMMs.