Hello people of TomsHardware ,
Lately , I have upgraded my rig from 965 be to FX 6300 and also aquired new cooler for it with closed liquid cooling (CM hydro H90). Ever since then my pc doesnt want make my RAMs work in dual channel . What I mean by that ,is that pc is detecting both of RAMs but is only able to use one of them , as whole memmory is reading 4 GB . I have noteced it wheni was putting my old cpu back to factory setting and i saw in bios that pc is using only 4 gigs . I proceeded to swap RAMs and tryied all of possible configurations . The result was that they both work separately , but pc cant read them both in dual channel even is bios is showing both of channels populated . Only once I had success with having it dual channel again , but after cpu and cooler change , I cant seem to make them work again . Same thing happend with another pair of RAMs 2x8 .
So the questions are :
What may be causing this ? As there is no thermal paste leftovers anywhere , no bent pins , also MOBO and PSU are working fine . I am still goin to try to dismount mobo and look properly on pins etc to assure this , but I believe eveyrthing is fine .
They seem to be working when seated in separate slots like a1 b1 setup (not dual channel which is in this case a1 a2) and PC shows both of them active and can access full 8gigs . The question here is : will this affect performance in any ways ? I mean , i know that dual chennel is superrior but will this drop my performance in noticable way ? as for now i find some minor "lags" and pauses in the games i play , can it be happening because of this ? When pc is using 4gb but once it need more that that it have troble reading the other RAM and there is the lag ? Am not sure how this works so please shed some light on it for me
Will it also be more viable for me selling those and getting single RAM ?
tl;dr
RAM is not working in dual channel setup as pc is recognizing only half of RAM but both slots are clearly populated in BIOS . They work however in not dual channel setup meaning a1 b1 slots are populated . Same with another pair of rams .
Thank you for any help in advance
my spec :
MOBO : ASUS M5a99x EVO (UEFI BIOS)
CPU : AMD FX-6300 @ 4Ghz
GPU : AMD Sapphire radeon HD 7850 OC @ 2GB
RAM : GOODRAM Play 8GB 1333Mhz
HDD : WD 1TB
SSD : Kingston hyper x 120GB
PSU : 600 W
Lately , I have upgraded my rig from 965 be to FX 6300 and also aquired new cooler for it with closed liquid cooling (CM hydro H90). Ever since then my pc doesnt want make my RAMs work in dual channel . What I mean by that ,is that pc is detecting both of RAMs but is only able to use one of them , as whole memmory is reading 4 GB . I have noteced it wheni was putting my old cpu back to factory setting and i saw in bios that pc is using only 4 gigs . I proceeded to swap RAMs and tryied all of possible configurations . The result was that they both work separately , but pc cant read them both in dual channel even is bios is showing both of channels populated . Only once I had success with having it dual channel again , but after cpu and cooler change , I cant seem to make them work again . Same thing happend with another pair of RAMs 2x8 .
So the questions are :
What may be causing this ? As there is no thermal paste leftovers anywhere , no bent pins , also MOBO and PSU are working fine . I am still goin to try to dismount mobo and look properly on pins etc to assure this , but I believe eveyrthing is fine .
They seem to be working when seated in separate slots like a1 b1 setup (not dual channel which is in this case a1 a2) and PC shows both of them active and can access full 8gigs . The question here is : will this affect performance in any ways ? I mean , i know that dual chennel is superrior but will this drop my performance in noticable way ? as for now i find some minor "lags" and pauses in the games i play , can it be happening because of this ? When pc is using 4gb but once it need more that that it have troble reading the other RAM and there is the lag ? Am not sure how this works so please shed some light on it for me
Will it also be more viable for me selling those and getting single RAM ?
tl;dr
RAM is not working in dual channel setup as pc is recognizing only half of RAM but both slots are clearly populated in BIOS . They work however in not dual channel setup meaning a1 b1 slots are populated . Same with another pair of rams .
Thank you for any help in advance
my spec :
MOBO : ASUS M5a99x EVO (UEFI BIOS)
CPU : AMD FX-6300 @ 4Ghz
GPU : AMD Sapphire radeon HD 7850 OC @ 2GB
RAM : GOODRAM Play 8GB 1333Mhz
HDD : WD 1TB
SSD : Kingston hyper x 120GB
PSU : 600 W
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