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I mean, this honestly seems rather nice of Valve? The performance difference likely isn't that much, and if you are the kind of person where it does matter you'll probably want to upgrade to 32GB anyway. In which case you can just buy a single 16GB stick rather than having to buy a full kit.
Surprisingly, in the video they see noticeable improvements in performance with 2 sticks due to it unlocking dual-channel memory. Ut was an up to 15% improvement in CPU bound games.
I recommend actually watching the video for more detail
An important thing to consider with ddr5 that their method of testing didn't consider is that a number of 8gb sticks are made in a way that gives a lot lower performance. So the 8gb sticks valve could source may not have had that big of a difference from a single 16gb stick.
I think generally you aren’t supposed to use different kinds of memory together, so a lot of people would replace it entirely.
I think this may have been an issue eons ago, now everything just agrees on what speed to run based on the slowest stick. Haven’t heard of it being a problem for a while.
Watch the video.
Different person here. I did watch, and it sounded like a bit of FUD. "It could be unstable. You could get a random crash some month into the future and you don't know if you need to blame it on the RAM or something else." that's basically all he said.