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Chapter 1: Product introduction
 YoumayinstallvaryingmemorysizesinChannelAandChannelB.Thesystemmaps
thetotalsizeofthelower-sizedchannelforthedual-channelconguration.Anyexcess
memoryfromthehigher-sizedchannelisthenmappedforsingle-channeloperation.
 Duetothememoryaddresslimitationon32-bitWindows
®
OS,whenyouinstall4GB
ormorememoryonthemotherboard,theactualusablememoryfortheOScanbe
about3GBorless.Foreffectiveuseofmemory,werecommendthatyoudoanyofthe
following:
- Useamaximumof3GBsystemmemoryifyouareusinga32-bitWindows
®
OS.
 - Installa64-bitWindows
®
OSifyouwanttoinstall4GBormoreonthe
motherboard.
 - Formoredetails,refertotheMicrosoft
®
support site at http://support.microsoft.
com/kb/929605/en-us.
 ThedefaultmemoryoperationfrequencyisdependentonitsSerialPresenceDetect
(SPD),whichisthestandardwayofaccessinginformationfromamemorymodule.
Underthedefaultstate,somememorymodulesforoverclockingmayoperateata
lowerfrequencythanthevendor-markedvalue.Tooperateatthevendor-marked
oratahigherfrequency,refertosection2.5 Ai Tweaker menu for manual memory
frequencyadjustment.
 AlwaysinstalltheDIMMSwiththesameCASLatency.Foranoptimumcompatibility,
werecommendthatyouinstallmemorymodulesofthesameversionordatacode
(D/C)fromthesamevendor.Checkwiththevendortogetthecorrectmemory
modules.
 VisittheASUSwebsiteatwww.asus.comforthelatestQVL.