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Old 05-14-2012, 04:29 PM
Luis Carrillo Luis Carrillo is offline
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Default Re: Share some tricks i7 750, 760, 780

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Originally Posted by albee1952 View Post
Since you have a mobo that can run triple-channel RAM, you should try removing 1 stick(from the blue slot) and running 3x4 in triple channel mode. It will likely give you better performance than 16GB of RAM(that's NOT running properly). Then retest your core theory(how many cores give the best result). In general, 1 less than the total number is the "happy" spot(for most users). For me, it has always been all cores, but some VI plugins seem to steer it otherwise. AFAIK, the X58 motherboards are the only ones that offer triple-channel, so start there Other motherboards, check your manual.
I got the taking out i memory from the blue slot (thats very Interesting), but "running 3x4 in triple channel mode." i didnt get that. Thank you.
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