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Why does my DDR400 memory now show speeds of DDR333 when I use more than 2 sticks of memory with my AMD Opteron based motherboard?

April 26, 2017AMD based ddr333 DDR400 memory motherboard opteron speeds sticks

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Why does my DDR400 memory now show speeds of DDR333 when I use more than 2 sticks of memory with my AMD Opteron based motherboard?

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The root of the issue and why you see this at this point is because this is essentially the way that AMD designed this chipset to run. If you look in Chapter 4 on pages 161 and 162 of the BIOS and Kernel Developer’s Guide, you will see the recommended DIMM configuration table.