[SOLVED] Using 3 out of 4 RAM Slots

[chaoyang]

My motherboard have 4 RAM slot with the maximum ram capacity of 16 GB (DDR3).

I am planing to buy an extra 4 GB of RAM however this leave me with one more empty slot, will this slow down my performance/ ram speed by any chance?

 

[MadsModsat]

If you have two RAM modules now, they will most likely be running in Dual Channel.

Adding a 3rd module will cause the RAM to run Single Channel slowing them down.

Ideally you should run 2 or 4 RAM modules in order to have them operate in Dual Channel mode and in that way get the maximum performance from your RAM.

 

[OllympianGamer]

Depends what motherboard do you have? The 2 dimms you have at the moment are they a matched pair and have you got them in the correct slots to run dual channel?

 

[chaoyang]

Depends what motherboard do you have? The 2 dimms you have at the moment are they a matched pair and have you got them in the correct slots to run dual channel?

Thye dimms slot are colored in pairs