Who Understands Quad Channel Ram?
Not me.......HELP!!!
Saturday, December 23, 2017 by RedneckDude | Discussion: Personal Computing
I have 8 ram slots, and a quad channel board. I can't get the system to boot with any more than 2 ram sticks installed. 6 empty ram slots just bothers me to no end.
Reply #2 Saturday, December 23, 2017 7:45 AM
Check the Manuel (he's from Barcelona) for your motherboard. I have a Gigabyte X299 Gaming 9. It has 8 slots for ram, and there is a chart in the manual showing where to put the sticks which depends on how many you have. I have 4 16GB sticks and where they are placed makes a difference.
Quad channel allows the CPU to use 4 times as much RAM at one time If you have 4 sticks (in the correct slots); that 's why you are better off having 4 8GB sticks rather than 2 16GB sticks.
Does your CPU support quad channel?
Reply #3 Saturday, December 23, 2017 10:39 PM
Hmmm, dunno. It's a Xeon. I'll check it out.
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Reply #1 Saturday, December 23, 2017 3:47 AM
Rtfm as there is a specific order to populate slots....