Quad channel DDR3 in dual channel motherboard

[galacticcurry]

Bad advice on this website. I just bought quad channel ddr3 and installed it in my dual channel motherboard and no it doesn’t work. Someone said quad channel will work in dual channel motherboards and it is a marketing scam. Seriously well that just cost me $170.00 in ram I can never use- thanks dumbass.

 

[Zerk2012]

You either bought incompatible memory for the motherboard, have a bad stick of memory, or a bad slot on the motherboard.
Usually buying 2 sticks of memory is cheaper anyhow and puts less stress on the memory controller.

 

[Kenneth Barker]

if you bought a quad channel, and have four slots (even if its only dual channel) it would still work. You may have just been unlucky and gotten a bad set. It happens to all of us some times. Claim your warranty or RMA the kit for another. It will work.

 

[Zerk2012]

NO don't just RMA the memory you need to verify if it is the memory or the motherboard.
Use one stick of memory and move it to all 4 slots on the motherboard if all the slots are working then try each of the other 3 sticks in one slot.

 

[Kenneth Barker]

NO don't just RMA the memory you need to verify if it is the memory or the motherboard.
Use one stick of memory and move it to all 4 slots on the motherboard if all the slots are working then try each of the other 3 sticks in one slot.

^^^^ He is right. It is best to confirm the RAM is the issue first. I jumped the gun.

 

[barto]

It would help if we had the build or the link to the previous thread.

 

[galacticcurry]

It was my bad- thanks for everyone's input. You know what I didn't do when I installed the new DDR3? I didn't clock it back to near standard settings before I installed the new DDR3. I had just realized that after my rant and you know I read over and over again that it will work- because it does work.

I was clocked at 2000Mhz with 2000Mhz DDR3. The sticks were wore out- at least that's what I suspected and I was right. I bought some 2666Mhz DDR3 but this old rig wont fry that hot. I've done some testing and it will do 2200Mhz, I tried 2333Mhz but it wont have it- guess I should have saved $50 and gone with the 2400Mhz DDR3 with tighter timing. It is possible 2X8GB would have been a better choice as well. The thing is I had been testing my old DDR3 and I couldn't boot with only 2 sticks installed no matter which way I put them. 1 and 3 were the slots I remember the manual saying to use if only using 2 sticks- at least that's what I remember but I tried it everyway with every different stick.

[My DDR3 was going bad so I had to change it out- it was effecting the system and this old dog is seeing a new day. Apparently the ram can effect the CPU overclocking and that was one of the symptoms, I had clocked my system down to 3.6 for it to be stable- I thought it was the processor.]

EVGA P55 200 Classified
i7 875K @4.03Ghz (I haven't tried to go higher)
16GB G.Skills 2666Mhz RipsawsZ @2200Mhz
EVGA GTX 970 4GB FTW
EVGA GTX 680 4GB FTW (non-SLI, PhysX and Open CL)
EVGA 1000G 1000Watt power supply
OS: Windows 7 on 2 240GB Mushkin Chronos in RAID 0 via SATA3 2X PCI-e RAID controller (732MBps)
Data drive: 500GB Samsung 840 EVO via SATA3 2X PCI-e non-RAID controller (520MBps)
4 SATA2 250GB Western Digital Blue Caviar drives in RAID 10 (original build, bootable OS)
1 SATA2 500GB Western Digital Blue Caviar drive for data storage (original build)
LITEON Blu-Ray Burner, DVD, CD Combo (I use it several times a year)
Sound Blaster X Fi Extreme Audio S/PDIF connected to my mixer
1 "Big Ass" air cooler for the CPU- was thinking of upgrading to liquid, Corsair most likely.

Anyway not too bad for a 5 year old computer.