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Installing ASRock b450m pro4 - weird DIMM layout.

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6 minutes ago, bdk74 said:

I'm in the process of installing the new mobo but it's dimm layout made me wonder.

 

See picture attached. The release hitch(level or however you call it) seems to exist only on one side - is this normal? Even the manual shows two sides to be released.

Yes, it is. Many vendors do this. Frankly, I like it better: one less moving part to break :P 

The manual is just generic.

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I'm in the process of installing the new mobo but it's dimm layout made me wonder.

 

See picture attached. The release hitch(level or however you call it) seems to exist only on one side - is this normal? Even the manual shows two sides to be released. Please advise.

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Picture in manual is super duper dated, even my AM3+ mobos I believe are the single side latch.

 

With 2 DIMMS you are pointing at the correct to slots to use on that board, slide in the bottom (closest to GPU) first then latch the top (have the board) (at least that's what I do)

Workstation Laptop: Dell Precision 7540, Xeon E-2276M, 32gb DDR4, Quadro T2000 GPU, 4k display

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 5 3600,ASRock B450M Pro4 (3dmark.com)

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https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/37004594?

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6 minutes ago, bdk74 said:

I'm in the process of installing the new mobo but it's dimm layout made me wonder.

 

See picture attached. The release hitch(level or however you call it) seems to exist only on one side - is this normal? Even the manual shows two sides to be released.

Yes, it is. Many vendors do this. Frankly, I like it better: one less moving part to break :P 

The manual is just generic.

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