- Dec 17, 2013
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Hello,
My GA 970A UD3P board has 4 ram sockets. 4th one is covered by cooler so it wasn't used. Now listen, this gets weird.
I have 2x 4GB sockets who should be able to work together in dual-channel mode (Corsair 1600Mhz VENGEANCE rams bought in a bundle). I've put 2 modules in 1 and 3 socket, result - windows shows 8 gb and only 4 gb are being used (rest reserved for some kind of hardware.. idk) Then I put rams in 1 and 2 sockets, result - all 8 Gb are being used, problem is - this ain't a dual channel mode. Again I put rams in 2 and 3 socket, result - 4gb used only, 8gb is still displayed, but non-operating. So looks like there must be something wrong with 3rd ram socket on the motherboard, but then i put single ram module into that 3rd socket and it works... 4gb ram operating. WTF? Please help!
I've also tried putting each ram module separately into all of the sockets, everything works, but only 1 and 2 sockets can operate together with full 8gb ram efficiency, but thats not a dual-channel i would like to have.
What could be the problem?
P.S. I am using windows 7 64 bit OS and the CPU I have is AMD FX-8320
My GA 970A UD3P board has 4 ram sockets. 4th one is covered by cooler so it wasn't used. Now listen, this gets weird.
I have 2x 4GB sockets who should be able to work together in dual-channel mode (Corsair 1600Mhz VENGEANCE rams bought in a bundle). I've put 2 modules in 1 and 3 socket, result - windows shows 8 gb and only 4 gb are being used (rest reserved for some kind of hardware.. idk) Then I put rams in 1 and 2 sockets, result - all 8 Gb are being used, problem is - this ain't a dual channel mode. Again I put rams in 2 and 3 socket, result - 4gb used only, 8gb is still displayed, but non-operating. So looks like there must be something wrong with 3rd ram socket on the motherboard, but then i put single ram module into that 3rd socket and it works... 4gb ram operating. WTF? Please help!
I've also tried putting each ram module separately into all of the sockets, everything works, but only 1 and 2 sockets can operate together with full 8gb ram efficiency, but thats not a dual-channel i would like to have.
What could be the problem?
P.S. I am using windows 7 64 bit OS and the CPU I have is AMD FX-8320
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