You're going to need to loosen the CAS timings anyway to get the 8Gb of RAM to work in 4 DIMM slots.
You wouldn't lose much by buying 2x4Gb sticks, sticking with dual-channel, and keeping to the tighter timings. Memory is very cheap at this time.
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Another home-built rig:
AMD FX 8350, liquid-cooled. Asus Sabretooth 990FX Rev 2.0 , 16 GB Mushkin Redline (DDR3-PC12800), Enermax 1000W PSU, MSI R9-280X 3GB GDDR5
2 X 128GB OCZ Vertex SSD, 1 x64GB Corsair SSD, 1x 500GB WD HDD.
CH Franken-Tripehound stick and throttle merged, CH Pro pedals. TrackIR 5 and Pro-clip. Windows 7 64bit Home Premium.
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