Sabertooth P67 Killed Ram Slots

BurntOutMutha

BurntOutMutha

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So I was re-fitting my heatkiller block to the board.... and then had the stupid brainwave of super gluing the rear nuts/washers to the back of the m/board so that I could tighten from the CPU side and remove without having to go around the back everytime... well ....

Once re-fitted, I hit the boot button and I got constant memory fails (mem OK light on solid) and the boot process went no further.

Took everything out again, inspected the board from outside of the case and no sign of cracks or anything (bit of residue glue tho but not on anything conductive).

After lots of sweat I discovered that it was slots A1+B1 which were now at fault. The system boots just fine if I use A2+B2 (2x4g of XMS3).

Using slots A2+B2 I have seen little or no performance drop in the custom PC bench or Linx. I Doubt I will ever need to use A1/B1 on this build as 8gb it just fine for my needs.

My question is, should this situation concern me tooo much ?

Am I missing something wrt bandwidth with only using slots A2+B2 ?

Thanks
 
Did the ram work originally in these slots?

Some boards only boot with the ram in certain slots, my X58 UD5 is the same, only boots in the 2nd, 3rd & 6th slots from the cpu.
 
yes unfortunately :)

Think I may have tightened those bolts a little too hard....must be physical I would think.

Still benching to see if there's a bench loss and results so far are that I've lost 1 BCLK from my cpu's previous limit.
 
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