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Coloured RAM channels
Now a very basic query - when I have four RAM slots and they are in two colours say config 1 red-black / red-black or config 2 red - red / black - black and I only have two sticks of identical RAM to put in - do I put both sticks in the same colour slots regardless of the slot configuration?
I am only asking as I was under the impression that the same colour was to be used and some school machines I have here have the two sticks in different coloured slots. The machines were brought to me for tidying up -clogged with dust etc and they have been struggling all day with the boot and going from app to app.
So I threw in two sticks into the empty slots from one of the other machines and noticed an immediate difference. Would this be due purely to more RAM or that the slots are now configured correctly or both?
Have Googled this but am going round the houses - sorry just want to be doing the right thing
Example in pic which shows marking s for DIMM numbers.