Well, second time i have to type this since my first post got deleted, so this one will probably be a lot shorter than my last one. Hopefully i don’t forget anything this time…<\/p>\n
OK SO, i just bought 2x4gb of G.Skill Sniper 1866MHz RAM to replace the 6gb of OCZ Platinum that just shot out on me and is causing a lot of computer issues… Well, looking over the compatible RAM page on gigabytes website, i found this little piece of text:<\/p>\n
“Only one DIMM per channel supported for 1886mhz RAM and faster”<\/p>\n
I have done quite a bit of research on this subject over the past couple of days and have come back even more confused than when i started. BUT, from what i have been able to learn is, There are 4 slots on my mobo (Gigabyte 990fxa ud3). Slots 1, 2, 3, and 4. Slots 1 and 2 are a single channel, while slots 3 and 4 are a single channel, correct?<\/p>\n
And from what i can tell is this…I am able to either able to install one 4gb card into slot 1, and one into slot 3 at 1866 MHz OR HIGHER in single channel mode, correct? OR both cards into slots 1 and 2 at 1600MHz OR SLOWER in dual channel mode, correct?<\/p>\n
so, assuming that i am correct and dual channel does actually mean have two cards into either slots 1 and 2 OR 3 and 4 running at 1600mhz or slower…WHICH WOULD BE BETTER?<\/p>\n
Running both cards in dual channel (slots 1 and 2) at 1600mhz?
\nOR running both cards in single channel (slots 1 and 3) at 1866mhz or higher?<\/b><\/p>\n
sorry for the messy post, it was much cleaner and easier to read before it got deleted…oh well, the basic questions are there. Also, i dont really care about if i can tell the difference in speed or not, i just want to milk the fastest speeds i can get out of these things without stressing anything too much (for OCD reasons lol). Here are the rest of my specs:<\/p>\n
Win 7 64-bit
\nThor v2 Full Tower Case
\nGigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Mobo
\nAMD FX-6300 3.5 GHZ CPU
\nMSI Radeon HD-7870 2GB GPU
\nRosewill Bronze 1000w PSU
\n(Soon to be) 8GB G.Skill Sniper 1866mhz
\n2x500GB WD Green in Raid 0
\n2×34 GB Sandisk (not in raid with OS on one, and APPs on the other)<\/p>\n
Thank you all in advance for whatever help you can give me, i get my RAM tomorrow so hopefully i will have a good idea of how i should set them up! (:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":4},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-10849","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/10849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}