AX3950 Ram upgrade slot order

ianfromnotts

Looking to add some extra Ram to the board but its confusing not least because of the colours on the slot retainers.

 

The board has four slots all are black but 2 adjacent ones have white retaining clips and the other 2 black.  

 

Current set up

 

CPU   Dimm 4                 Dimm 3                Dimm 2           Dimm 1
         white clip             white clip             black clip        black clip

         2gb                       empty                   1gb                empty

 

I have another strip of matching 2gb Ram the big question is which slot do I put it in ?

 

I cant find a motherboard manual anywhere.

 

I am leaning towards removing the 1gb strip from Dimm 2 and adding the 2gb strip to Dimm 3 then resetting the CMOS. To get balanced dual.

 

But I have seen pictures of this board with blue and black slots alternating and black slots with the white clips alternating!  

 

Can some one point me towards the motherboard MB.SE509.001 manual or better still offer some advice on the ram upgrade route, I might - for example - want to try leaving the 1gb strip in Dimm 3 and later adding another 1gb to Dimm 4

 

Many thanks

 

 

brummyfan2

Hi,

Yes, I agree with you, take out the 1GB and replace it with 2GB in Dimm 2 and put the 1GB in either Dimm1 or Dimm3, when you get the other 1GB latter on install it  in whichever slot empty. There's not much difference between dual channel setup and single channel setup.