got new dimm showing its installed but used for gpu?

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Max Barbeau

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i had 2 sticks of corsair vengance 4 gbs and got a new stick of ingston hyperx blu. The new stick shows up and it says 12 gb of ram in winodws. but when i go to task manager it says 8
 
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the problem was i had it in the 2, 3, 4 slots. i switched the corsair to 1 and 3 and the kingston to 2 and it runs fine now. The problem was i was attempting to run 2 different sticks in the same channel. my mistake it was a quick fix.
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What he said ^^^^ It works most of the time but sometimes it does the exact kind of things your talking about
 
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Max Barbeau

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the problem was i had it in the 2, 3, 4 slots. i switched the corsair to 1 and 3 and the kingston to 2 and it runs fine now. The problem was i was attempting to run 2 different sticks in the same channel. my mistake it was a quick fix.
 
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Ya that will never work has to be same RAM same channel. Good job on figuring it out though.
 
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