Memory Placement

[BabyPCMR]

What difference would it make if i put my two ram sticks in next to each other instead of every other slot? My motherboard manual just says it's "recommended" to put the in every other slot, but i might have some clearance issues and wanted to know of any draw backs. Thanks! 

[emosun]

depends what motherboard but usually they alternate because the ram channel slots alternate. so essentially you could loose multichannel if you put the rams in the wrong slots

[jiyeon]

If you have clearance issues, that's not an excuse to skimp on dual channel.

 

I may be wrong here, but what dual channel does versus single channel is essentially split the load between the two channels effectively increaasing the efficiency of both channels. It's like how I have my DDR4-2400 DIMMs set to dual channel so effectively each RAM module is running 1200MHz.

(I hope someone can enlighten me on this.)