User's Manual

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Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Chapter 1
Memory configurations
Youmayinstall2GB,4GB,8GBand16GBunbufferedandnon-ECCDDR4DIMMsinto
theDIMMsockets.
ForIntel
®
Core™X-SeriesProcessor78xx,79xxSeries,youmayinstallvaryingmemory
sizesinChannelA,ChannelB,ChannelC,andChannelD.Thesystemmapsthetotalsize
ofthelower-sizedchannelforthequad-channelconguration.Anyexcessmemoryfrom
thehigher-sizedchannelisthenmappedforsingle-channeloperation.
• ThedefaultmemoryoperationfrequencyisdependentonitsSerialPresenceDetect
(SPD),whichisthestandardwayofaccessinginformationfromamemorymodule.
Underthedefaultstate,somememorymodulesforoverclockingmayoperateata
lowerfrequencythanthevendor-markedvalue.
• Forsystemstability,useamoreefcientmemorycoolingsystemtosupportafull
memoryload(8DIMMs)oroverclockingcondition.
• AlwaysinstalltheDIMMSwiththesameCASLatency.Foranoptimumcompatibility,
werecommendthatyouinstallmemorymodulesofthesameversionordatacode
(D/C)fromthesamevendor.Checkwiththevendortogetthecorrectmemory
modules.
• VisittheASUSwebsiteforthelatestQVL.