Specifically, we’ll be looking at the ASRock Z590 OC Formula ( 579.99 ), Asus’ ROG. In practice, as long as the channels are equally filled, I believe there should be no performance or capacity limitations. That said, these boards are also great for more general-purpose builds, but at a significant premium. The key point however is to fill the different memory channels equally, and this is likely provided as an 'idiot-proof' instruction, rather than instructing the user to just fill the channels equally. Note: 'Furthest from the CPU' comes from the motherboard manual of my recent PC build (ASUS motherboard) and may not be what is stated for all motherboards. AMD B650 mATX motherboard with DDR5, PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot with heatsink, dual M.2 slots, M.2 Q-Latch, 8+2 DrMOS, Wi-Fi 6, Realtek 2. System Name: Ryzen Up: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 7950x3d: Motherboard: Asus ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO: Cooling: iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX: Memory: G. The different colours signify the channel used for the RAM in that slot - so in a Dual channel system, there are two colours, and three in a triple channel system.įor performance, you should be using both channels, so if you have two dimms, this rule of thumb will result in one slot for each channel being filled first. Dual channel will work when you use identical sticks of RAM in slots of the same colour, so forinstance you would need to put your 4GB modules in just the Black. If I buy a motherboard for the slots, itll be one that costs no more than 20, a motherboard for my PC is like 80 (these are second hand prices). This is your 'Always in adjacent slots, but with differring color' option. Well I know how to solder it, and I have a bunch of old motherboards to practice if I need to.

Populate the RAM slots starting from the slot furthest from the CPU.

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