motherboard utilization. (dimm slots)

Stephanie De Leon

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Aug 4, 2014
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Ive been looking at the specs of the mobo I am going to buy and I noticed it has 4 dimm slots. Should I try to utilize all 4,slots by switching to a 4x2 ram or do I stick with my 2x4. I read recently that using all dimm slots will help performance. Any thoughts?
 
Solution
2 sticks are generally more efficient than 4 sticks. Unless you have an LGA-2011 motherboard, you probably have dual-channel memory and it's most efficient accessing one bank of memory on each channel.