RAM dual and single?

[forwhat84]

hello,can some help me out? why is slot #1 #3 single and slot #2 #4 dual?

how can i make it dual or quad?(is it possible)

 

[iRileyx]

What motherboard? 

Pretty sure you cant have double dual channels, and unless you're on an x99 board, you can't get quad channel.

[PCGuy_5960]

2 minutes ago, forwhat84 said:

how can i make it dual or quad?(is it possible)

You can't make it quad, unless you have an X99 CPU...

[Imakuni]

3 minutes ago, forwhat84 said:

hello,can some help me out? why is slot #1 #3 single and slot #2 #4 dual?

how can i make it dual or quad?(is it possible)

That's bizarre... even though the sticks are the same (or at least they should be), it's saying one is Single Rank while the other is Dual Rank... Honestly, I call that BS reading. I bet all 4 modules are Dual Rank ones, given that they are 8gb sticks. Not saying that they can't be, but they most likely are.

 

As for making them have different ranks, sorry, you can't. That's a physical thing, can't have more ranks other than by buying new sticks.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

What motherboard? 

Pretty sure you cant have double dual channels, and unless you're on an x99 board, you can't get quad channel.

Iirc no channel is defined by cpu not mobo

[forwhat84]

ASUS ROG Maximus IX Code and kaby lake 7700k

 

[forwhat84]

3 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

As for making them have different ranks, sorry, you can't. That's a physical thing, can't have more ranks other than by buying new sticks.

so what ram to buy?

[Imakuni]

4 minutes ago, forwhat84 said:

so what ram to buy?

What for? Oh, and btw, you're not getting quad rank kits on consumer hardware.

[zMeul]

that must be some sort of error, and ranks refers to something else and not dual channel - the DIMM cannot be single and dual rank at the same time

to check dual channel you need to look at the Memory Tab

 

a lot of people here confuse ranking with single/dual/quad channel

[forwhat84]

buying new sticks. ?

 

can i make it to quad?

[zMeul]

2 minutes ago, forwhat84 said:

buying new sticks. ?

 

can i make it to quad?

please stop, ranking does not refer to channels - LGA1151 is a dual channel platform, not quad

see my post above

[forwhat84]

oh, thanks you.

 

Do i have bad RAM? or normal? do i need to do anything?

[typographie]

1 hour ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Iirc no channel is defined by cpu not mobo

It's sorta both. Support for this comes from the platform, which is the CPU and chipset considered as a unit. H110, for instance, limits you to single-channel even though every LGA-1150 CPU supports dual-channel.

[zMeul]

7 hours ago, forwhat84 said:

oh, thanks you.

 

Do i have bad RAM? or normal? do i need to do anything?

nope, sit tight

[zMeul]

6 hours ago, typographie said:

H110, for instance, limits you to single-channel even though every LGA-1150 CPU supports dual-channel.

this is quite wrong!

please read again the Intel spec sheet: it sais number of DIMMs per channel - 1

what that means is how many DIMM slots there are for each channel and not how many channels there are - H110 boards are still dual channel but come equipped only with 2 DIMM slots

example: http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H110M-S2H-rev-10#sp

[forwhat84]

On 3/22/2017 at 6:14 AM, zMeul said:

nope, sit tight

thank you, this is my 1st pc build.

[zMeul]

2 hours ago, forwhat84 said:

thank you, this is my 1st pc build.

the problem here is just misreading - it's quite impossible to have single rank and dual rank DIMMs at the same time in the system, it would result in a no boot/post

 

what you could do, totally optional, is to do a BIOS update for the mobo https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-MAXIMUS-IX-CODE/HelpDesk_Download/