Why does my motherboard have 4 Memory Slots if it can't support it?

[Zev_7]

Basically I bought an old motherboard from somebody else and it looks like it's brand new so whoever had it took care of it but I noticed that it has 4 RAM slots yet supports the LGA 1150 socket and ASUS's site says it supports 4th gen. processors which as you can see here only supports dual channel RAM? 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)

Unless this motherboard supports 5th generation processors as well? Because the 4th generation X processors have an entirely different socket. There isn't really a reason for it to have 4 RAM slots, can anyone help clarify this for me?

 

ASUS Z87-K

[NinJake]

Dual channel doesn't mean you can't use 4 sticks of RAM in your system. You can, and if you put 4 sticks of 8gb you'll still have 32gb of memory to use. (On a 64-bit OS)

[TheRandomness]

You'll find that broadwell processors also only support dual channel RAM. But that just means that if you put 4 sticks in, you'll have 2 pairs of dual channel memory.

[Glenwing]

4 minutes ago, Zeta_191 said:

Basically I bought an old motherboard from somebody else and it looks like it's brand new so whoever had it took care of it but I noticed that it has 4 RAM slots yet supports the LGA 1150 socket and ASUS's site says it supports 4th gen. processors which as you can see here only supports dual channel RAM? 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)

Unless this motherboard supports 5th generation processors as well? Because the 4th generation X processors have an entirely different socket. There isn't really a reason for it to have 4 RAM slots, can anyone help clarify this for me?

 

ASUS Z87-K

Memory channels is not the number of sticks. You can use 2 sticks per channel, so 2 channels = 4 sticks.

[Zev_7]

Oh okay whoops 

quick question though, this wouldn't support 5th generation processors right?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Zeta_191 said:

Oh okay whoops 

quick question though, this wouldn't support 5th generation processors right?

depends on which 5th gen, there is mobile, extreme core... 

[Dogsparky]

11 minutes ago, Zeta_191 said:

Basically I bought an old motherboard from somebody else and it looks like it's brand new so whoever had it took care of it but I noticed that it has 4 RAM slots yet supports the LGA 1150 socket and ASUS's site says it supports 4th gen. processors which as you can see here only supports dual channel RAM? 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)

Unless this motherboard supports 5th generation processors as well? Because the 4th generation X processors have an entirely different socket. There isn't really a reason for it to have 4 RAM slots, can anyone help clarify this for me?

 

ASUS Z87-K

Dual channel is only 2 sets of 2, two ram sticks is 1 channel

[Zev_7]

3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

depends on which 5th gen, there is mobile, extreme core... 

The Desktop kind, thinking any intel core i3-i7

both 4th gen and 5th gen have LGA 1150 except for the high end X processors.

[xIHuNTeRIx]

17 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

You'll find that broadwell processors also only support dual channel RAM. But that just means that if you put 4 sticks in, you'll have 2 pairs of dual channel memory.

can u take a look at my :"Bluetooth problem" topic pls :3

 

[TheRandomness]

13 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

depends on which 5th gen, there is mobile, extreme core... 

You're forgetting the i5-5675c and i7-5775c, both of which featuring L4 Cache (codename Crystal Well, which is why they had the C instead of a K). Said cache actually tended to improve performance in games. Also, the iGPUs were nearing a GTX 750 in performance.

 

Also @xIHuNTeRIx thread hijacking is not allowed.

[xIHuNTeRIx]

2 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

You're forgetting the i5-5675c and i7-5775c, both of which featuring L4 Cache (codename Crystal Well, which is why they had the C instead of a K). Said cache actually tended to improve performance in games. Also, the iGPUs were nearing a GTX 750 in performance.

 

Also @xIHuNTeRIx thread hijacking is not allowed.

ok ill don't do it anymore 

but can I do this with message?

[TheRandomness]

Just now, xIHuNTeRIx said:

ok ill don't do it anymore 

but can I do this with message?

Just wait for people to reply to that thread.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

You're forgetting the i5-5675c and i7-5775c, both of which featuring L4 Cache (codename Crystal Well, which is why they had the C instead of a K). Said cache actually tended to improve performance in games. Also, the iGPUs were nearing a GTX 750 in performance.

 

Also @xIHuNTeRIx thread hijacking is not allowed.

thats the triple dot at the end for cuz i dont remember their architecture name

[Guest]

12 minutes ago, Dogsparky said:

Dual channel is only 2 sets of 2, two ram sticks is 1 channel

2 ram sticks is still dual channel 

[Dogsparky]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

2 ram sticks is still dual channel 

4 ram sticks is dual channel, which is why 4 slot motherboards are dual channel

[Zev_7]

I'm gonna assume it probably won't work with the 5th gen processors because it doesn't explicitly say on their site. I'll probably try it anyway later on, although since I'm new to PC building I didn't know what dual channel was until now. Feel a little dumb for asking this. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Dogsparky said:

4 ram sticks is dual channel, which is why 4 slot motherboards are dual channel

you are getting information mixed up

 

1. even numbers of ram can be dual channel, 2,4,6,8... if cpu/mobo supports

2. 4 rams can be quad channel too not only dual channels

 

[Glenwing]

34 minutes ago, Dogsparky said:

4 ram sticks is dual channel, which is why 4 slot motherboards are dual channel

4 RAM sticks is dual channel with 2 sticks per channel, 2 RAM sticks is dual channel with 1 stick per channel (assuming they're in the correct slots).