ASUS Memory channel, a1 a2, b1, b2...

[chavo]

Hi

just bought a ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 board and some KINGSTON KHX1600C9D3B1K2/4GX Ram "2x2 GB".

I am waiting for the case and psu to come so i thought i would pop the chip and ram in, the board has 2 black slots then 2 blue slots.
from the bottom up

B1 - BLUE
A1 - BLUE
B2 - BLACK
A2 - BLACK

on page 1-11 it says channel A - A1 + A2 CHANNEL B - B1 + B2.

I take that to mean that i should stick my ram in one blue one black, a1 and a2 to give me a dual channel configuration running on channel A

On page 1-12 it says - install the DDR3 1600 or higher frequency DIMMS on the blue slots for better overclocking performance.

This would give me a DIMM in A1 + B1. this would be single channel? can anyone decrypt this? its confused the hell out of me.

[Ulti]

I'm pretty sure Asus colour code their DIMM slots so I'd put them both into the same colour slots for now and get the board running and check with CPU-Z to check if it's running a dual channel config. If not then it's not exactly hard to take off the side panel and move a memory stick 1 slot to the right

[Sputnik]

I like Ulti's answer.

I've seen board where the colour denotes the channels i.e. RED = channel A and Black = channel B.

But,

I've also had boards where the colour denotes it is the number of the slot i.e. RED= slot 1 in each channel. etc.

[chavo]

well for the reord i loaded my 2 dimms in to dslot blue and itsays on some softeare "unganged"

hmm that sounds like the opposite of dual!

[Ulti]

IIRC that isn't to do with the channel setting of the RAM. Download CPU-Z here and open it up, click the "Memory" tab and read what it says next to "Channels #". Won't take more than 5 seconds!