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I have 16GB of ram installed in my computer, as two 4gb sticks and one 8gb stick. Today, I upgraded my old Phenom II CPU to an FX-8350, and my GPU from a Radeon 7770 to an R9 380x. Until today, 4gb of my ram was always listed as Hardware Reserved, but now only around 32MB is reserved, and I'm...

So I moved the 8GB stick to the first slot and the 4GB sticks to the 2nd and 3rd slots, and now Windows says i have 16GB with 12GB usable. Would I be correct in assuming the other 4GB stick isn't being used because it's dual-channel and I don't have a stick in the 4th slot? Also sorry, here's...

I recently got an 8GB ram stick to complement my two 4GB sticks. All three sticks have the same Voltage, Cas Latency, and MHz, and are the same model other than capacity, but when I check the Properties screen for my computer, my installed memory is listed as "16 GB (8GB usable)". Am I only able...