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Quad channel, so you have to install RAM with 4 match sticks at a time?
by balls187 9y ago
Quad channel, so you have to install RAM with 4 match sticks at a time?
- jhasse 9y agoIf you don't want to run in Dual or Single channel mode - yes.
- blattimwind 9y agoKinda. Modern (newer than ~10 years) modern controllers are quite flexible, so you can pretty much populate any number of DIMMs in any slots (apart from wrong ordering, though this is not a IMC restriction, rather firmware, for stability). However. Disregarding the recommended populations usually means that the MC can't interleave the channels properly and also must choose other settings in a lowest-common denominator way. This severely reduces the performance of the memory subsystem, which includes cache coherency and all core communication in Zen.
- jhasse 9y agoInteresting, thanks :)