Which have better performance Two 2GB RAM sticks or One 4GB RAM stick?

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I am planning to buy a new PC. The mainboard has 4 memory slots, The PC has Windows 7 64-bit installed. Which approach is better regarding the performance buying: Two memory sticks of 2GB? One memory stick of 4GB? I am also interested in dual channel memory architecture.

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2 sticks in general because you get dual channeling. But more memory will always beat out dual channel for general workloads.

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