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Triple Channel RAM

lilshaney
By lilshaney
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Hi,

 

I am posting on behalf of my brother... Basically he has an Asus P6X58D-E and wants to max it out with 24GB of DDR3 RAM... The thing he wants to know is can he buy any sticks of RAM and they work in triple channel or do they need to state they are triple channel.

 

Many thanks,

 

Shane.

 

 

SPECS - MOTHERBOARD: ASUS X99-S, CPU: Intel i7 5960X OC @ 4.50GHZ @ 1.20V, CPU COOLER: NZXT Kraken X62 AIO, RAM: 64GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX XMP OC @ 3000MHZ CL15, GPU: 2x MSI Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Armor OC Edition W/ Coldzero Backplate in SLI W/ MSI HB SILVER SLI BRIDGE, STORAGE: 250GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 (Boot), 2TB Samsung 850 SSD (Game Storage) *2x 1TB Samsung 850 SSD (Raid 0)*, 8TB WD Blue (Secondary Application Storage) *2x 4TB WD Blue (Raid 0)*, 500GB WD Green (Web Development), 64GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 (Drivers) *Internally Installed (NZXT Internal USB Hub)*, WIRELESS CARD: TP-LINK Archer T9E AC1900 Dual Band PCI, PSU: Corsair RM1000X 1000W, CASE: NZXT H440 White, LIGHTING: NZXT Hue+, KEYBOARD: Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2, MOUSE: Razer Naga Hex V2, MOUSE PAD: Razer Firefly Chroma Hard Surface.

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Well, try to buy the exact memory stick as memory may be unpredictable as i have even brought same kit and won't boot unless you place in individual stick in one by one. You need to buy a triple channel ram to run all of them in triple channel, but 3 different ones or similar ones in 99% won't allow you run triple channel or might not even boot. 

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1 minute ago, MrUnknownEMC said:

Well, try to buy the exact memory stick as memory may be unpredictable as i have even brought same kit and won't boot unless you place in individual stick in one by one. You need to buy a triple channel ram to run all of them in triple channel, but 3 different ones or similar ones in 99% won't allow you run triple channel or might not even boot. 

All of the RAM modules will be identical basically what I'm trying to say is... Is triple channel something that is built into the memory itself or just the motherboard?

SPECS - MOTHERBOARD: ASUS X99-S, CPU: Intel i7 5960X OC @ 4.50GHZ @ 1.20V, CPU COOLER: NZXT Kraken X62 AIO, RAM: 64GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX XMP OC @ 3000MHZ CL15, GPU: 2x MSI Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Armor OC Edition W/ Coldzero Backplate in SLI W/ MSI HB SILVER SLI BRIDGE, STORAGE: 250GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 (Boot), 2TB Samsung 850 SSD (Game Storage) *2x 1TB Samsung 850 SSD (Raid 0)*, 8TB WD Blue (Secondary Application Storage) *2x 4TB WD Blue (Raid 0)*, 500GB WD Green (Web Development), 64GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 (Drivers) *Internally Installed (NZXT Internal USB Hub)*, WIRELESS CARD: TP-LINK Archer T9E AC1900 Dual Band PCI, PSU: Corsair RM1000X 1000W, CASE: NZXT H440 White, LIGHTING: NZXT Hue+, KEYBOARD: Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2, MOUSE: Razer Naga Hex V2, MOUSE PAD: Razer Firefly Chroma Hard Surface.

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3 minutes ago, lilshaney said:

All of the RAM modules will be identical basically what I'm trying to say is... Is triple channel something that is built into the memory itself or just the motherboard?

Well if you already have it i would just test it. 

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1 minute ago, MrUnknownEMC said:

Well if you already have it i would just test it. 

Sorry I didn't explain, he currently has 8GB in a 2*4GB configuration he wants to buy the other 16GB of the same RAM... So he will have 6*4GB.

SPECS - MOTHERBOARD: ASUS X99-S, CPU: Intel i7 5960X OC @ 4.50GHZ @ 1.20V, CPU COOLER: NZXT Kraken X62 AIO, RAM: 64GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX XMP OC @ 3000MHZ CL15, GPU: 2x MSI Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Armor OC Edition W/ Coldzero Backplate in SLI W/ MSI HB SILVER SLI BRIDGE, STORAGE: 250GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 (Boot), 2TB Samsung 850 SSD (Game Storage) *2x 1TB Samsung 850 SSD (Raid 0)*, 8TB WD Blue (Secondary Application Storage) *2x 4TB WD Blue (Raid 0)*, 500GB WD Green (Web Development), 64GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 (Drivers) *Internally Installed (NZXT Internal USB Hub)*, WIRELESS CARD: TP-LINK Archer T9E AC1900 Dual Band PCI, PSU: Corsair RM1000X 1000W, CASE: NZXT H440 White, LIGHTING: NZXT Hue+, KEYBOARD: Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2, MOUSE: Razer Naga Hex V2, MOUSE PAD: Razer Firefly Chroma Hard Surface.

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1 minute ago, rrubberr said:

Having three RAM channels is a feature of the CPU which must be supported by the motherboard. RAM DIMMS is irrelevant.

Thanks, that is what I wanted to hear... So he has an i7 930 and an Asus P6X58D-E... Any RAM will run in triple channel as long as he has all RAM slots filled and they are identical?

SPECS - MOTHERBOARD: ASUS X99-S, CPU: Intel i7 5960X OC @ 4.50GHZ @ 1.20V, CPU COOLER: NZXT Kraken X62 AIO, RAM: 64GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX XMP OC @ 3000MHZ CL15, GPU: 2x MSI Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Armor OC Edition W/ Coldzero Backplate in SLI W/ MSI HB SILVER SLI BRIDGE, STORAGE: 250GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 (Boot), 2TB Samsung 850 SSD (Game Storage) *2x 1TB Samsung 850 SSD (Raid 0)*, 8TB WD Blue (Secondary Application Storage) *2x 4TB WD Blue (Raid 0)*, 500GB WD Green (Web Development), 64GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 (Drivers) *Internally Installed (NZXT Internal USB Hub)*, WIRELESS CARD: TP-LINK Archer T9E AC1900 Dual Band PCI, PSU: Corsair RM1000X 1000W, CASE: NZXT H440 White, LIGHTING: NZXT Hue+, KEYBOARD: Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2, MOUSE: Razer Naga Hex V2, MOUSE PAD: Razer Firefly Chroma Hard Surface.

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1 minute ago, rrubberr said:

Yes.

Thanks alot!

SPECS - MOTHERBOARD: ASUS X99-S, CPU: Intel i7 5960X OC @ 4.50GHZ @ 1.20V, CPU COOLER: NZXT Kraken X62 AIO, RAM: 64GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX XMP OC @ 3000MHZ CL15, GPU: 2x MSI Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Armor OC Edition W/ Coldzero Backplate in SLI W/ MSI HB SILVER SLI BRIDGE, STORAGE: 250GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 (Boot), 2TB Samsung 850 SSD (Game Storage) *2x 1TB Samsung 850 SSD (Raid 0)*, 8TB WD Blue (Secondary Application Storage) *2x 4TB WD Blue (Raid 0)*, 500GB WD Green (Web Development), 64GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 (Drivers) *Internally Installed (NZXT Internal USB Hub)*, WIRELESS CARD: TP-LINK Archer T9E AC1900 Dual Band PCI, PSU: Corsair RM1000X 1000W, CASE: NZXT H440 White, LIGHTING: NZXT Hue+, KEYBOARD: Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2, MOUSE: Razer Naga Hex V2, MOUSE PAD: Razer Firefly Chroma Hard Surface.

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