Motherboard Ram Slots

Duzz7

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Hello everyone. I am going to add another stick of corsair vengeance ram to my msi b75ma-p45 motherboard and i was wondering what slot to put it in. My first stick is in the first blue slot closest to the cpu. Does the second stick go into the slot right next to the first one which is the black slot or does it skip over the black slot and go into the second blue slot? Thanks in advance.
 
Solution
You go into the second blue slot. 1 stick goes in one blue, 2 in both blue, and then you jump to all 4 slots full. You never want one in each color, or 2 in one and one in the other.

Duzz7

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Thank you for your answer. May i ask why it matters what color slots you put your ram in?

 

egilbe

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Dual channel. Ram is suppose to be installed as factory matched pairs. two slots are for one channel and the other two slots are for another channel. when you have one stick in each different channel slots, you have dual channel mode, which is faster than single channel mode.