Something to note if you are installing single stick of RAM: 2:07 - You might have to install RAM in the 2nd slot (slot A2) depending on your motherboard, unlike what I have shown at 2:07 which is on A1 slot. It depends from board to board so check your manual for it. Also in case of dual channel with 2 sticks you may want the sticks to be on slot A2 and B2 first in some motherboards unlike how I show at 1:45.
@@AMGameGoesOn z790 aorus elite ax. and what i had meant was the second of each channel. back in the day, you slotted first in 0 for single or for dual channel you'd do 0,2 for your first of each channel.
@@Wolfiecolada @J now a days the labeling is kinda different. But as I see your board picture it follows the same layout as I showed at 1:41 in the video. And in case of single stick of ram you can fill any slot you want it wont matter at all. The labeling on the board is shown is for dual channel setup.
Please tell me, if you put 8 + 8 in slots A1 / B1, and 4 + 4 GB in A2 / B2, will this combination work in two channels? Memory with the same frequency, only the timings are different and 4 + 4 GB memory has chips on both sides, unlike 8 + 8 GB, which have chips on one side.
See there's nothing like they won't work everything's gonna work but you may run into problems which may negatively impact your performance overall for using dissimilar memory.
Great video. But wouldn't it be more benefitial if we use 1 RAM stick on the closest slot to the cpu? As the distance is shorter there should be some benefits, no?
Some one help me, I just put 2 sticks on my MSI Z690 but it said the ram goes in 1 an 2 slot, Not 2 an 4 slot, Why was it telling me to use A1 and B1 I think, Either way it says use lane A1, But everywhere else says use lane 2 and 4, Ahhhhhhhh, I will activate XMP now in a min, Fingers crossed, lol...
For most motherboards, it's always on A2 and B2 first. But sometimes some boards have different configurations, so it's always better to follow your manual.
@@AMGameGoesOn Yeah I put the Ram where the green arrows told me, Fantastic that is though, Even a daft person like myself, lol, I say daft, Still learning I mean, lol, I said this to a PC company, Sell a PC that is a project PC for a Father and Son or Daughter PC project in bits like in kit form, All the pieces you need of your own choice, Put all the parts in a box, And then use You Tube as the revenue for the instructional step by step video, Of how to build said PC, I say it because computers will always be the future, And a great skill for any teen growing up is knowing how a PC is put together, Makes learning future subjects about PC's a bit easier when a kid knows the basics, In fact if my Daughter was still in school and living with me, I would get bits even the used in Amazon is amazing for a cheaper PC build, I would of loved to learn how to build a PC with my Daughter, But yeah a Kit project PC would be great, lol... Yeah I put the ram where the motherboard told me too, Even with pictures, lol, And PC running sweet at 4800MHz, XMP makes my PC crash, What would cause that? Thanks for the reply though....
I have a b760 gaming x Ax ddr5 and my ram is kingston 6000 mt lc 40, and if i use in slot A2B2 i get black screen, and not bot. If i put in A1B1 work great and i can Overclock. Is a mobo issue? Or is everyting ok? Is a new pc configuration. 2x16 gb ram dual channel
There's definitely something wrong with your board cause you are meant to put ram sticks in to A2B2 first if you have 2 sticks of ram, it says the same on the motherboard layout. Maybe try putting 1 single stick of ram into A2 and then B2 and check the individual slots to see if they work.
My mobo is gigabyte b450 ds3h 4 slot. All slot are working fine with single stick . When i installed 2*8 gb same ram in slot 1and 3 is fine working. But when i put my same brand 4gb ram in 3 and 4 slot . Continue beep sound emits . System restart again and again sometimes does not open. Help me .ram is kingston fury beast ddr4 2*8gb 3200 mhz and other same 4gb 3200mhz . I cant install 4gb ram .
My Motherboard has 4 slots (A1, A2, B1, B2) only recognizes A1 and A2. Tested all 4 chips they all work in A1 and A2 but not B1 or B2 at all. I have tirelessly tried to find a solution and it seems that it's due to a CPU pin that was bent. Subsequently checked all pins, all aligned and fitting properly. Is there some setting that I am missing?
@@arjaysalvador6527 having the same problem myself now! I don't know if it's a pin issue or what. I have two TINY pins that glint differently in the light than all the others but that could be the only issue I reasonably see to cause this problem
Try all slots with just a single RAM first. If B1 and B2 do not work with same RAM, that should be some failure with the motherboard or the CPU. If the RAMs work alone, but don't work together, that could be due different or incompatible RAM modules.
It's better to run 2 or 4 RAM sticks than 3. Using 3 next to each other means only 1 pair(2 ram sticks) will run in dual channel mode, the 3rd one which ever gets left out can't form the pair as the 4th stick is absent so this might cause in stability in your system and a drop in performance too (as I said this might its not 100% that it will always for everyone, you can try and see what fits better for your hardware).
I have a 8GB RAM 2666MHZ and planning to buy 1 more stick of 8GB 3200MHZ, would It still be possible to run dual channel? I know that the speed from the 3200MHZ RAM will be running at a lower rate 2666MHZ such as the other one.
Sorry for the late response. Too many comments to deal with so it's easy to loose track of them. So, it may or may not run in dual channel if your speeds are different or any single spec is different. Both RAM sticks should have the same size and the same bus speed to run in dual channel mode. I recommend you take out that 2666MHz stick out of the board and buy 2*8GB 3200MHz dual channel ram kit as DDR4 quite is cheap these days.
@@AMGameGoesOn I have asked the people who are selling the PC components. THey are quite the big company with good techinicians, they said that it will run dual channel but at 2400MHZ only. So I'm fine with 2400 MHZ
I would never trust technicians. But if you are fine with 2400MHz then its ok but you are loosing on 15-30% of performance (FPS) in games.@@phantrungai8585
@@muichiro-kun14 I get your point but not everyone knows about everything and I think knowledge is quite important. If you want you can always skip to the timestamp.
Something to note if you are installing single stick of RAM:
2:07 - You might have to install RAM in the 2nd slot (slot A2) depending on your motherboard, unlike what I have shown at 2:07 which is on A1 slot. It depends from board to board so check your manual for it.
Also in case of dual channel with 2 sticks you may want the sticks to be on slot A2 and B2 first in some motherboards unlike how I show at 1:45.
Thank you this was helpful
Glad it helped
gracias, me funciono perfecto
if I have 4 sticks, and they are in 2 different brands, how would you recommand configuring it?
Doesn't matter as long as they're same ddr and mhz
do u have a test with single channel xmp on and dual xmp off?
my gigabyte manual indicates that the second slots be filled first. z790 aorus
It’s probably 2nd and 4th slot to be filled first then
@@AMGameGoesOn well yeah, but second on first channel and second on "second" channel
back in the day, it was different
@@Wolfiecolada full model name of your motherboard?
@@AMGameGoesOn z790 aorus elite ax.
and what i had meant was the second of each channel.
back in the day, you slotted first in 0 for single or for dual channel you'd do 0,2 for your first of each channel.
@@Wolfiecolada @J now a days the labeling is kinda different. But as I see your board picture it follows the same layout as I showed at 1:41 in the video. And in case of single stick of ram you can fill any slot you want it wont matter at all. The labeling on the board is shown is for dual channel setup.
Please tell me, if you put 8 + 8 in slots A1 / B1, and 4 + 4 GB in A2 / B2, will this combination work in two channels?
Memory with the same frequency, only the timings are different and 4 + 4 GB memory has chips on both sides, unlike 8 + 8 GB, which have chips on one side.
See there's nothing like they won't work everything's gonna work but you may run into problems which may negatively impact your performance overall for using dissimilar memory.
Great video. But wouldn't it be more benefitial if we use 1 RAM stick on the closest slot to the cpu? As the distance is shorter there should be some benefits, no?
The rate is very fast at which data transfers, that extra distance doesn't make any noticeable difference at all.
Lol
very helpful. Didn't know AMD called it DOCP instead of xmp.👍
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Some one help me, I just put 2 sticks on my MSI Z690 but it said the ram goes in 1 an 2 slot, Not 2 an 4 slot, Why was it telling me to use A1 and B1 I think, Either way it says use lane A1, But everywhere else says use lane 2 and 4, Ahhhhhhhh, I will activate XMP now in a min, Fingers crossed, lol...
For most motherboards, it's always on A2 and B2 first. But sometimes some boards have different configurations, so it's always better to follow your manual.
@@AMGameGoesOn Yeah I put the Ram where the green arrows told me, Fantastic that is though, Even a daft person like myself, lol, I say daft, Still learning I mean, lol, I said this to a PC company, Sell a PC that is a project PC for a Father and Son or Daughter PC project in bits like in kit form, All the pieces you need of your own choice, Put all the parts in a box, And then use You Tube as the revenue for the instructional step by step video, Of how to build said PC, I say it because computers will always be the future, And a great skill for any teen growing up is knowing how a PC is put together, Makes learning future subjects about PC's a bit easier when a kid knows the basics, In fact if my Daughter was still in school and living with me, I would get bits even the used in Amazon is amazing for a cheaper PC build, I would of loved to learn how to build a PC with my Daughter, But yeah a Kit project PC would be great, lol...
Yeah I put the ram where the motherboard told me too, Even with pictures, lol, And PC running sweet at 4800MHz, XMP makes my PC crash, What would cause that?
Thanks for the reply though....
I have a b760 gaming x Ax ddr5 and my ram is kingston 6000 mt lc 40, and if i use in slot A2B2 i get black screen, and not bot. If i put in A1B1 work great and i can Overclock. Is a mobo issue? Or is everyting ok? Is a new pc configuration. 2x16 gb ram dual channel
There's definitely something wrong with your board cause you are meant to put ram sticks in to A2B2 first if you have 2 sticks of ram, it says the same on the motherboard layout. Maybe try putting 1 single stick of ram into A2 and then B2 and check the individual slots to see if they work.
My mobo is gigabyte b450 ds3h 4 slot. All slot are working fine with single stick . When i installed 2*8 gb same ram in slot 1and 3 is fine working. But when i put my same brand 4gb ram in 3 and 4 slot . Continue beep sound emits . System restart again and again sometimes does not open.
Help me .ram is kingston fury beast ddr4 2*8gb 3200 mhz and other same 4gb 3200mhz . I cant install 4gb ram .
I did a,1 and a,2 it work but I try a,1 and b,2 only red light on motherboard
@@saschathetrashpanda same problem
My Motherboard has 4 slots (A1, A2, B1, B2) only recognizes A1 and A2. Tested all 4 chips they all work in A1 and A2 but not B1 or B2 at all. I have tirelessly tried to find a solution and it seems that it's due to a CPU pin that was bent. Subsequently checked all pins, all aligned and fitting properly. Is there some setting that I am missing?
same situation but mine is working only in b1 and b2 not in a1 and a2, did you find any solution?
@@arjaysalvador6527 having the same problem myself now! I don't know if it's a pin issue or what. I have two TINY pins that glint differently in the light than all the others but that could be the only issue I reasonably see to cause this problem
Please post any potential fixes if you discover them!
Try all slots with just a single RAM first. If B1 and B2 do not work with same RAM, that should be some failure with the motherboard or the CPU. If the RAMs work alone, but don't work together, that could be due different or incompatible RAM modules.
yeah... me 2... slot a1 and a2... single ram... wont work, pc will loop in turning on and off
ok sir
If I put 3 RAMs next to each other, will the Duel Channel work or not?
It's better to run 2 or 4 RAM sticks than 3. Using 3 next to each other means only 1 pair(2 ram sticks) will run in dual channel mode, the 3rd one which ever gets left out can't form the pair as the 4th stick is absent so this might cause in stability in your system and a drop in performance too (as I said this might its not 100% that it will always for everyone, you can try and see what fits better for your hardware).
@@AMGameGoesOn I have a problem with the third socket. When XMP is activated, the device does not boot. Can you tell me the reason?
What if the mitherboard only has 2 ram slots?
You fill in both the slots.
Then you could not fit in 4 ram sticks, could you?😅
I have a 8GB RAM 2666MHZ and planning to buy 1 more stick of 8GB 3200MHZ, would It still be possible to run dual channel?
I know that the speed from the 3200MHZ RAM will be running at a lower rate 2666MHZ such as the other one.
Sorry for the late response. Too many comments to deal with so it's easy to loose track of them.
So, it may or may not run in dual channel if your speeds are different or any single spec is different. Both RAM sticks should have the same size and the same bus speed to run in dual channel mode.
I recommend you take out that 2666MHz stick out of the board and buy 2*8GB 3200MHz dual channel ram kit as DDR4 quite is cheap these days.
@@AMGameGoesOn I have asked the people who are selling the PC components. THey are quite the big company with good techinicians, they said that it will run dual channel but at 2400MHZ only. So I'm fine with 2400 MHZ
I would never trust technicians. But if you are fine with 2400MHz then its ok but you are loosing on 15-30% of performance (FPS) in games.@@phantrungai8585
Too many unnecessary info, didn't get straight to the point! Dislike
@@muichiro-kun14 I get your point but not everyone knows about everything and I think knowledge is quite important. If you want you can always skip to the timestamp.