Asus TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING - Memory Configurations

1-6
Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Chapter 1
• 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.
• Forsystemstability,useamoreefcientmemorycoolingsystemtosupportafull
memoryload(4DIMMs)oroverclockingcondition.
• 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.
• ForDRAMcompatibilityandperformance,pleaseuseA2slotforpriority1.
• 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.
• Foreffectiveuseofmemory,werecommendthatyoudoanyofthefollowing:
 a) Installa64-bitWindows
®
OSwhenyouwanttoinstall4GBormoreonthe
motherboard.
 b) Formoredetails,refertotheMicrosoft
®
supportsiteat
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us.
Memory configurations
Youmayinstall4GB,8GB,and16GBunbufferedandnon-ECCDDR4DIMMsintothe
DIMMsockets.