Ram slots - blue and black does it matter?

02JamieUK

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Hi

I just installed a new CPU fan however the fan was pretty big and covered my first blue ram slot so I had to move both my rams from the blue slots into the black slots. Is this going to change anything? I know you need to have them both in the same colour - which they are. But i got told to put them in the blue slots when I built it so i'm a bit worried as now ive had to move them to the black and i dont know what this mean.

SYSTEM SPECS:

MSI R9 280 GAMING 3GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI Dual Mini DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card

AMD FX-8350 4GHz Socket AM3+ 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor

Carbide Series SPEC-01 BLUE LED Mid Tower Gaming Case

Corsair AF120 LED Blue Quiet Edition High Airflow 120mm Fan

Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Socket AM3+ 8 Channel HD Audio mATX Motherboard

Corsair CSM 650W Semi Modular 80+ Gold Power Supply

WD 1TB Blue Desktop Drive 3.5" SATA-III 7200RPM 64MB

ASUS DRW-24F1ST Internal DVD±ReWriter 24X - OEM

Corsair 4GB DDR3 1600mhz Vengeance Memory Module CL9 1.5V Non-ECC Unbuffered X 2
 
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The reason of putting them in the blue slots, in your case... would be to decrease latency.
The closer it is to the CPU, the faster it would be.

However, you would never even be able to determine how much faster/slower it would be... because of how minuscule the difference. As others said, you will be fine :)
The reason of putting them in the blue slots, in your case... would be to decrease latency.
The closer it is to the CPU, the faster it would be.

However, you would never even be able to determine how much faster/slower it would be... because of how minuscule the difference. As others said, you will be fine :)
 
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