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It'll be referring to 4x16GB DIMMs.

 

Essentially, having a dual channel motherboard means that two of the memory sticks inserted will be paired for higher throughput.

 

By having four memory sticks in, your motherboard has two dual channel pairs. Memory cannot be mixed in a pair. Slot layout to ensure paired memory is shown in the manual

 

There are no performance or stability issues when using 4 DIMMS in your board at once (although there were at the start of DDR3).

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Dual channel is when you use 2 pair of ram, or 4 dimms. 32 gig dimms do exist, but typically 16 gigabyte dimms are much easier to find. So to support 64 gigabytes, you use 4x16gb ram

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It'll be referring to 4x16GB DIMMs.

 

Essentially, having a dual channel motherboard means that two of the memory sticks inserted will be paired for higher throughput.

 

By having four memory sticks in, your motherboard has two dual channel pairs. Memory cannot be mixed in a pair. Slot layout to ensure paired memory is shown in the manual

 

There are no performance or stability issues when using 4 DIMMS in your board at once (although there were at the start of DDR3).

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Asrock Fm2a88x+btc says that it supports dual channel only but has 4 slots Why and it says it supports 64gb of ram in dual channel do 32 gig dimms exist? Can I use 4 dimms if so are there any performance of stability issues

Yes, you can use 4 dimms, but it will have no performance improvement over 2. Basically, if you have 4 dimms filled, the CPU will treat it like you only have two(if you have 4x4gb for 16gb of ram, the CPU will treat it like 2x8gb). You can run 4 dimms in dual channel config, the CPU just won't get the full bandwidth it would if it had quad channel. There is no advantage of going 4x4 versus 2x8, so unless you need 64gb ram go with 2x8 or 2x4.

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It'll be referring to 4x16GB DIMMs.

 

Essentially, having a dual channel motherboard means that two of the memory sticks inserted will be paired for higher throughput.

 

By having four memory sticks in, your motherboard has two dual channel pairs. Memory cannot be mixed in a pair. Slot layout to ensure paired memory is shown in the manual

 

There are no performance or stability issues when using 4 DIMMS in your board at once (although there were at the start of DDR3).

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It'll be referring to 4x16GB DIMMs.

 

Essentially, having a dual channel motherboard means that two of the memory sticks inserted will be paired for higher throughput.

 

By having four memory sticks in, your motherboard has two dual channel pairs. Memory cannot be mixed in a pair. Slot layout to ensure paired memory is shown in the manual

 

There are no performance or stability issues when using 4 DIMMS in your board at once (although there were at the start of DDR3).

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Dual channel means that the 4 sticks are put into 2 channels. So you can have 16gb in 1 slot and 16 in the next and it will act like 32gb.

So u can run in dual channel while only having 2 dimms

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