2x 4gig + 1x8gig Or 4x 4gig/2x 8 Gig sticks

So recently some people in the office have been complaining there macs are intently slow. Now I dont know much about macs but because im one of 2 devs on staff I ofcourse Know all there is to know about IT.

My manager says its a Network/Server issue but I cant see how a server can cause Adobe/General Mac operations to slow.

The only common ground on all of these macs are that as the title mentions they all have the following memory setup: 2x 4gig sticks and 1 8gig Stick

From my windows experience although this works its a bad practice. I further Believe its this as my Computer is the only one in the office with 2x 8gig sticks and I have 0 Issues with my machine Doing way more intense tasks then any of the designers when I run simulated mobile devices in the few hundreds.

Anyone Can confirm that it is better to use the same Sticks in pairs A.k.a Getting everyones Ram switched so They pair 4's and 8's instead of mix matching?

Solution 1:

Yes, always avoid mix ‘n match...

4 * 4 or 2 * 8 is much better.