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teggy · Jun 26th, 2009, 01:16 AM

Alright, another one of my naive questions guys. Please help.

I currently have an Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe Mobo with 2 gig Kingston HyperX DDR2 on it.

Now i want to expand, the motherboard manual says it supports upto 8 Gig, but the instructions are kinda hazy as to where to seat each stick. The reason i ask is, because i relocated one of the Ram sticks from the blue slot over to black, booted the PC. And it would only register 1 Gig of ram (the one that was not moved).

So, i put the stick back into blue slot (the one i moved to black slot), and the pc registers it. What gives? Now the only thing i could think of was that the black slots support lower capacity sticks, but that wouldn't add upto 8 gig.

So, how exactly do i expand the ram? I was thinking of going for another 2, 2 Gig sticks of Kingston HyperX to give me a total of 6GB altogether.

Any suggestions, ideas would help.

Thanks as always.

This is the ram i have right now:
Newegg.com - Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KHX6400D2LLK2/2GN - Desktop Memory

This is what i was looking to get:
Newegg.com - Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KHX6400D2LLK2/4G - Desktop Memory

Jun 26th, 2009, 01:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
teggy Administrator GupShup Join Date: Oct 15, 2007 - 3:53 am Posts: 15,425 Blog Entries: 13	Alright, another one of my naive questions guys. Please help. I currently have an Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe Mobo with 2 gig Kingston HyperX DDR2 on it. Now i want to expand, the motherboard manual says it supports upto 8 Gig, but the instructions are kinda hazy as to where to seat each stick. The reason i ask is, because i relocated one of the Ram sticks from the blue slot over to black, booted the PC. And it would only register 1 Gig of ram (the one that was not moved). So, i put the stick back into blue slot (the one i moved to black slot), and the pc registers it. What gives? Now the only thing i could think of was that the black slots support lower capacity sticks, but that wouldn't add upto 8 gig. So, how exactly do i expand the ram? I was thinking of going for another 2, 2 Gig sticks of Kingston HyperX to give me a total of 6GB altogether. Any suggestions, ideas would help. Thanks as always. This is the ram i have right now: Newegg.com - Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KHX6400D2LLK2/2GN - Desktop Memory This is what i was looking to get: Newegg.com - Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KHX6400D2LLK2/4G - Desktop Memory Quod mi nutrit mi distruit! Laa raiba feehi!