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    • abarbarian
      If the mobo has four ram slots and you are only installing two sticks of ram the manual should tell you which slots to populate first. Worth checking up on as some mobos are funny about ram installs. 😎
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      It means that the colored pair is a dual channel set and that you should install RAM as a pair to take advantage of it. Basically match the colors if you are only use two slots.
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