Hi all,
Recently been dealing with quite a few BSODs (mostly Memory_Management) and I used Memtest to identify a bad stick, which leads me to my question:
My setup WAS 16gb DDR3, which came as a set, 4x4gb. My motherboard (Asus M5A97 Evo R2) is, I think, set up to accept two "pairs" of sticks....on the physical board, it goes DIMM A1, B1, A2, B2, in that order.
When I ran Memtest, I identified that stick #4 (which was in slot B2) was bad (tested the slot with a good stick to confirm.) I also noticed while it ran that my frequency and timing was wrong (according to the factory specs), so I fixed that once memtest was done. To solve the bad stick issue, I just removed it. So now I'm running with 12gb (which is fine for my needs...I overbuilt) but I'm curious since the memory was sold as a preconfigured set, and the mobo documentation demonstrates using either 1, 2 or 4 sticks...am I hindering my system performance by using 3?
Any help is really appreciated.
Recently been dealing with quite a few BSODs (mostly Memory_Management) and I used Memtest to identify a bad stick, which leads me to my question:
My setup WAS 16gb DDR3, which came as a set, 4x4gb. My motherboard (Asus M5A97 Evo R2) is, I think, set up to accept two "pairs" of sticks....on the physical board, it goes DIMM A1, B1, A2, B2, in that order.
When I ran Memtest, I identified that stick #4 (which was in slot B2) was bad (tested the slot with a good stick to confirm.) I also noticed while it ran that my frequency and timing was wrong (according to the factory specs), so I fixed that once memtest was done. To solve the bad stick issue, I just removed it. So now I'm running with 12gb (which is fine for my needs...I overbuilt) but I'm curious since the memory was sold as a preconfigured set, and the mobo documentation demonstrates using either 1, 2 or 4 sticks...am I hindering my system performance by using 3?
Any help is really appreciated.
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