Here's the problem, I'm building my new PC as we speak and I bought this mammoth cpu cooler (which while I knew it would be big I didn't read any reviews stating it covers a memory slot) which fully covers up my first ram slot and the heat spreader is too tall on the memory to try and weasel it in there. The Gigabyte's instructions tell me that there are two "dual channels" one using 1 and 3 and the other using 2 and 4. I installed the RAM into 2 and 4 because there is no other way for it to work. Is there any reason I wouldn't get the same performance out of slots 2 and 4 as opposed to 1 and 3?
Well, it looks like I need to go back to stock cpu cooling because CPU-Z is telling me that my memory is only running in single channel mode in slots 2 and 4.
Ok, so I put the stock CPU cooler in and switched my memory back into slots 1 and 3. However, when I run CPU-Z it is still telling me the memory is in single channel mode. Here's a picture:
My guess is that it's telling me that only a single channel (out of a possible two) is being utilized and since DC Mode is grayed out it's my guess that I'm not running in dual channel mode. I know the memory I bought is Dual Channel, so what could the problem be?
Well, I got it sorted. The mobo manual says one thing then immediately contradicts itself. It states that channel 0 is slots 1 and 3 and channel 1 is slots 2 and 4. Then it draws a diagram showing channel 0 being slots 1 and 2 and channel 1 being slots 3 and 4. The only flaw I've found with what is an excellent Gigabyte motherboard. Problem solved.
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