One issue with that is that if you run the second bank with just one module in it and the motherboard has dual channel architecture then all the RAM may only run in single channel mode.
You can check your motherboard manual to see how that third stick in slot 4 (B2) will affect the rest of the channels.
it dosent say anything about installing 3 sims at all only shows 1 2 of 4 sim config so mabye its not recomended ... love this forum got a reply pretty much straight away havent got one reply on the asus forums so frustrating thank you so much for your help
FWIW, sometimes you can get better performance with 12GB of RAM in single channel made than you would get with 8GB in dual channel mode. It really depends on what you are doing.
If the programs you are using need lots of RAM space to load into, so there is less transfer from the hard disk, then you will see better performance with more RAM.
If the programs are data crunching monsters then the transfer speed from RAM to CPU would benefit from the dual channel architecture.
If you are writing Word documents and watching Youtube videos then I don't think it would matter at all!
Don't be afraid to test it out both ways. It won't hurt anything.
oh if it wont hurt anything ill leave it .. being wonderful atm lol mostly just playing wow reading posts and watching movies or ytube and downloading all at the same time multi tasking monster lol i just hate things not working right have to find out whats up and what to do to fix it lol .. need to upgrade my other sons pc soon so i might just get myself a new board when i do that and give him this one he will not be haveing more than 8 gig in his dosent use it enough but once again thank you so much for your help
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