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Friday, December 11, 2009 4:43 PM
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EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX X58 SLI LE Intel Motherboard using G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)memory running Win7. It states I have 8 gig of ram but only 2.54 usable. What is my issue or do I have an issue?
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Re:x58 Motherboard and Memory issue
Friday, December 11, 2009 4:49 PM
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Are you running Win 7 64 bit?
If not, that is the problem.
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Re:x58 Motherboard and Memory issue
Friday, December 11, 2009 4:51 PM
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d.burnette is correct. In fact any system 4GB and over needs a 64 bit operating system or you will not be able to access all of your memory
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Re:x58 Motherboard and Memory issue
Friday, December 11, 2009 4:54 PM
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captkapow
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The issue is the extra 2GB of memory you have. You need to remove 1 stick and leave it at 6GB for you to benefit the tripple channel feature. Apply the sticks on memory bank 1,3,5 1 -2- 3 -4- 5 - 6 Welcome to the forums sir!
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Re:x58 Motherboard and Memory issue
Friday, December 11, 2009 5:14 PM
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So if I upgrade to 64 bit I should be ok?
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Re:x58 Motherboard and Memory issue
Friday, December 11, 2009 5:15 PM
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Thank you for the reply. So if I upgrade to 64bit will I see all 8 gig?
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Re:x58 Motherboard and Memory issue
Friday, December 11, 2009 5:20 PM
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Thank you for the reply. So if I upgrade to 64bit will I see all 8 gig?
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Re:x58 Motherboard and Memory issue
Friday, December 11, 2009 5:23 PM
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You still won't be able to run 8 gigs in triple-channel, though. You want 3 or 6 DIMMs of matching memory modules... so, 3, 6, 12, 24 gigabytes of ram using 3 or 6 slots.
But yeah, you'll need 64-bit Windows to be able to use it all.
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Re:x58 Motherboard and Memory issue
Friday, December 11, 2009 5:32 PM
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Thank you. Not the news I wanna hear but ty anyway. 
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Re:x58 Motherboard and Memory issue
Friday, December 11, 2009 5:37 PM
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Your very welcome.
Just fyi, if you do go to 64 bit there is no in place upgrade , you will have to do a clean install of a 64 bit OS.
A 32 bit OS only has an addressable map space of 4gb, and there are resources like sound, video, bios, that get mapped to that space, and then what is left the ram gets mapped to. Which is why you only see around 2.54 gb available. The rest of the ram basically just goes unused.
A 64 bit OS does not have this same limitation, and you will get all your ram available.
However as others mentioned, to get the full benefit of the speed of the ram, with triple channel you will want to populate 3 banks, or 6.
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