Much Ado About Everything

If you want to use all 4 memory slots in your AsRock Dual-Sata2 motherboard, you must use identical sticks – I mean same manufacturer, same model, same everything!  Otherwise you’ll be running them at half speed – which technically is the same as not working.  Crazy, crazy stuff.  I paid a fair bit of cash to find that out, so I hope you won’t have to.

By the way, concerning this issue, RTFM! (Read the f*$@% manual). Right there on page 8 it says to use identical modules in all 4 slots. Well, ok, so they do tell us. But then what the hell is the point of having 4 slots? It means you shouldn’t expect to expand your memory in the future as it will be very difficult to find identical memory modules unless you get them all at the same time. I don’t recall hearing about this issue in other motherboards, at least not recently. It might be interesting to find out if this limitation only applies to this motherboard.

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