I love RAM installation RAM installation loves me follow along it's easy you'll
see a critical part of any successful RAM installation is picking the right
memory in this case we need third generation DDR DDR 3 we can accept
memory speeds up to 1866 MHz so we're
going to use 1600 MHz memory and voltage
is key as well this motherboard calls for anything at 1.65 volts or less so
our memory is rated for 1.5 volt so that's just fine if you want to be 100%
sure you can check the qvl or qualified vendor list on the motherboard
manufacturer website however a lot of the time those lists are out of date and
you're better off to just find something that has a specification that matches
what your motherboard accepts and try it out now most motherboards have tabs on
both sides of the memory slot this is to latch the memory into place what you
might notice however is that some motherboards only have a tab on one side
this is to reduce clearance issues with large video cards or other cards
installed in the PCI Express slots it doesn't really affect the procedure much
you just have to make sure that you're careful when you're installing in the
side without a tab make sure it clicks all the way in once you have the correct
memory you need to identify the slots you're going to install them in this is
a dual Channel motherboard you can tell because there are two of each color of
slots I recommend populating the slots that are further away from the CPU
socket itself first because this reduces the chance of interference with between
your CPU Cooler and the memory it's optimal to fill all of a particular
color before you start filling the others so I'd install my first two
sticks in the blue slots and my second two sticks in the black slots some
motherboards actually have the slots labeled in micro printing on the board
itself and this can help you if for whatever reason you can't tell from the
color coding which one to use now this is the fun part where we actually
install the memory pull back either one or two tabs depending on the type of
motherboard you have position the memory inside the slot ensuring that the notch
in the bottom of the module is aligned with the notch in the memory slot itself
push it down gently now this is where the procedure differs if you have a one
latch slot then what I usually do is I push in the non- latched side first to
ensure it goes in all the way then the other side if you have two latches then
I push them both the same way you can easily check the latch sides to make
sure that they're in all the way by visually inspecting the latch itself and
for the other one again visual inspection or give it a quick push to
ensure that the RAM is firmly seated after that you basically rinse and
repeat until you've installed either your two sticks or your four sticks in
the case of this motherboard then what you want to do is boot up the system and
use CPU to verify that all of the memory is detected you can also check in
Windows to verify that all the memory is even being used for example Windows Home
Premium won't detect more than 16 gigs of RAM it is normal for the megahertz
detected in CPU to be 1 half of the
advertised DDR speed because DDR 1600
megahertz is double data rate 800
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