Samsung ddr3 pc3 12800 ram

daveowen34

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Nov 19, 2014
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I need some help, I have;
Msi 970 gaming
Fx8350
1tb ssd
Msi r9 290 4gb
16gb samsung 4x4gb ddr3 pc3 12800
Cool by corsair for the cpu
And 850 psu
Now I have installed the ram on the board and it shows 16gb and the it shows me 7.95gb useable, now I have tried everything on the Internet to change the (hardware reserved) and now I am looking for help, if my 4x4gb ram is all 12800 pc3 ddr 3 would that make it single channel ram??? I have taken it all out and moved them around but to no avail, I have checked all the serial numbers and have found that the last two digits have numbers (81+82) and the other two are (D1+52) now that to me says that they are not matching pairs would I be right??? Any help would be appreciated.
 

Tradesman1

Legenda in Aeternum
Am guessing you bought two packages of DRAM? (each 2x4GB) or were the single stick purchases, or.....what? Regardless their are no guarantees that DRAM from different packages will play nice, here I would first try raising the DRAM voltage + 0.06 and the CPU/NB voltage + 0.10