How important is it to put RAM into the optimised slots?

[lwoodyy]

Hi all,

 

Long story short I snapped off one of the plastic parts on the RAM slots on the motherboard (last time I installed RAM on a PC I'm sure there were clips at the bottom and the top?) and now I can't put RAM into B2 (I'm an idiot). I've installed my two RAM sticks into A1 & B1 instead and I get a warning whenever I boot up my PC that these are not optimised slots. How important is this really? Are we talking minimal differences or is this quite significant? I'm mostly concerned with gaming performance, my set-up is below:

 

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 (2x8GB)

MOBO: MSI 450M PRO-VDH V2

 

Thanks

 

[Justinzonfire]

You would essentially be running your ram from Dual channel to single channel, so the BANDWIDTH is cut in half, not the speed but it will be slower for sure. pretty important 

 

Edit: You may or may not notice however since all of the numbers on the channel is POTENTIAL speed and not actual speed. 

 

[Dedayog]

13 minutes ago, lwoodyy said:

Hi all,

 

Long story short I snapped off one of the plastic parts on the RAM slots on the motherboard (last time I installed RAM on a PC I'm sure there were clips at the bottom and the top?) and now I can't put RAM into B2 (I'm an idiot). I've installed my two RAM sticks into A1 & B1 instead and I get a warning whenever I boot up my PC that these are not optimised slots. How important is this really? Are we talking minimal differences or is this quite significant? I'm mostly concerned with gaming performance, my set-up is below:

 

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 (2x8GB)

MOBO: MSI 450M PRO-VDH V2

 

Thanks

 

Put it in the right slots, friction will hold it in place just fine.

 

Don't ask me how I know this

 

[Justinzonfire]

Just now, jstudrawa said:

Put it in the right slots, friction will hold it in place just fine.

 

Don't ask me how I know this

 

hahahaahahhaha Unlucky man. 

[lwoodyy]

6 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

Put it in the right slots, friction will hold it in place just fine.

 

Don't ask me how I know this

 

Ha you are right, thanks. Didn't expect it to stay there but seems okay so far. Guessing you've got a similar thing going on?

[Dedayog]

1 minute ago, lwoodyy said:

Ha you are right, thanks. Didn't expect it to stay there but seems okay so far. Guessing you've got a similar thing going on?

Yeah, a previous build I was in a much more constricted case doing something, had the RAM out so the clips were unsupported.  Broke one off with my fat hands and frustration at the older case making my reckless and moving too fast.

 

So yeah, it worked fine after that, but was upset with myself for letting myself get myself all riled up