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If you don't want to run in Dual or Single channel mode - yes.

• blattimwind 9y ago
  Kinda. 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 ago
    Interesting, thanks :)