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That'll do it. Most manufacturers recommend slots #2 & #4 for best performance, but the difference between them and #1 & #3 is infantismal. But generally you can expect about 20% performance difference between single and dual channel.

Karadjgne

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There's nothing to help. What that benchmark shows me is your performance with those components is at 41st percentile, basically right in the middle. That's normal. What that test doesn't show is that other 59pcs as not having some sort of BCLK OC or ram OC or testing done under minimal ssd/hdd usage. Those other 59 pc's could be on fresh installs with minimal upgrades or interference software like Antivirus etc, which typically makes them a little faster. For example, under fresh install, my boot time to Internet use from a cold start was 8 seconds. Now with all the stuff on the SSD, windows updates and even an OC from 3.5GHz to 4.6GHz, my boot time is 23 seconds.

The test also said 'same components' which could possibly mean same cpu, same motherboard family (B150) same ram (2133MHz of any brand or timings) etc. It doesn't say identical specifications. So there's a huge Grey area. But your performance is very average and expected from what you have.

XMP is a specific profile set for ram. In other words if you have 2400, the default speed is 2133, and by enabling XMP you give the bios its 2400 speed, timings, voltage. Setting XMP on 2133, which defaults to 2133, basically does nothing.
 

Karadjgne

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That'll do it. Most manufacturers recommend slots #2 & #4 for best performance, but the difference between them and #1 & #3 is infantismal. But generally you can expect about 20% performance difference between single and dual channel.
 
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