[ale] Ot: ddr3 dual mode

[Lightner, Jeff]

I don't know about bad memory ruining Windows but I think installing Windows is a way to waste perfectly good memory :p


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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 5:38 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Ot: ddr3 dual mode



On February 25, 2016 5:34:42 PM EST, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Part 2 YES! and so can bad power. NEVER use a crappy, cheap, light in 
>weight, power supply no matter what the sticker says it is rated at. I 
>once knew of a vendor of computer parts in Norcross who had power 
>supplies without stickers and put what ever sticker on the power supply 
>that the customer wanted (back in those days something like 150, 200 or 
>250
>Watt) on
>the same supplies. I expect the quality of even crappy power supplies 
>is better now than then (nearly 30 years ago), but when it comes to 
>power supplies, you pretty much get what you pay for and heavier power 
>supplies have more capacity to maintain the rated output, esp in noisy 
>AC supply environments.

+100

>
>On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Ok I did put them in two slots 0 and 1 which were in blue color. But 
>> memtest still shows single channel mode. Maybe is bios option or
>something
>> else I didn't had time to play. PC is part from equipment buried
>behind
>> wires so no time to do it twice.
>>
>> Thanks for all opinions.
>>
>> Part 2 question:
>>
>> Can bad memory ruin Windows install?
>> On Feb 25, 2016 3:38 PM, "Greg Clifton" <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, start with the lowest numbered slots as mentioned above 0 or 1
>as
>>> the case may be, but the like colored slots should be labeled 0A and
>0B or
>>> 1A and 1B and 2A and 2B, and so forth. Most motherboards can work
>with a
>>> single memory module installed and in a single CPU motherboard, it
>probably
>>> won't matter which color slots you use, but in order to benefit from
>the
>>> dual channel nature (and thus best memory performance) of the
>motherboard,
>>> put the modules in like colored slots.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:06 PM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/25/2016 12:36 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>>> > I have 2 sticks by 2gb. My mobo has 4 slots 2 dark and 2 light
>>>> colored. Where
>>>> > should I insert sticks to get dual channel working.
>>>> >
>>>> > No Google time. Don't shoot me :)
>>>>
>>>> Every motherboard is different, so if you don't look it up, you'll
>never
>>>> know.
>>>>
>>>> RTFM for the motherboard.
>>>>
>>>> Put them in the same colored slots starting with slot 0.  That
>should be
>>>> safe to
>>>> get the most performance.
>>>>
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