User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Chapter 1
• YoumayinstallvaryingmemorysizesinChannelA,andChannelB.Thesystem
mapsthetotalsizeofthelower-sizedchannelforthedual-channelconguration.Any
excessmemoryfromthehigher-sizedchannelisthenmappedforsingle-channel
operation.
• Formoredetails,refertotheMicrosoft
®
supportsiteathttp://support.microsoft.com/
kb/929605/en-us.
• ThedesignoftheDIMMfanmayvary.EnsurethattheDIMMfantstothe
motherboard
• 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(2DIMMs).
• Memorymoduleswithmemoryfrequencyhigherthan2133MHzandtheir
correspondingtimingortheloadedXMPproleisnottheJEDECmemorystandard.
ThestabilityandcompatibilityofthememorymodulesdependontheCPU’s
capabilitiesandotherinstalleddevices.
• 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.
• ASUSexclusivelyprovideshyperDIMMsupportfunction.
• HyperDIMMsupportissubjecttothephysicalcharacteristicsofindividualCPUs.Load
theX.M.P.orD.O.C.P.settingsintheBIOSforthehyperDIMMsupport.
• VisittheASUSwebsiteforthelatestQVL.
Memory configurations
Youmayinstall1GB,2GB,4GB,8GBand16GBunbufferedandnon-ECCDDR4DIMMs
intotheDIMMsockets.