ram combining 4 and 8 gb

raja10

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Sep 22, 2012
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i have asus M5A97 R2.0 mother board with fx 8120 cpu.
the MOBO has 4 DIMM slots which supports 8 gb each.
total memory supported by MOBO is 32 Gb. in one of the slot i have placed transcent 4 gb 1600 mhz ram. in other 3 slots can i place 8 gb ram , or to buy all 4 gb

or to throw that 4 gb and buy all 8gb. i want 12 gb of memory