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August 6th, 2018 20:00

XPS 8930, DIMM slots

I just received a new Dell XPS 8930  When I ordered the device, I accidentally ordered  8GB of DDR4 SDRAM rather than my desired 16 GB of DDR4 SDRAM.  I purchased another stick of 8 GB compatible DDR4 SDRAM and opened the box to install the stick and found that at the time of the original assembly that the OEM 8 GB stick was apparently put in DIMM 2 rather than DIMM 1.  I therefore put the new 8GB stick in DIMM 4.  The BIOS then booted properly on to WIndows 10.  I did a Windows 10 memory check tool and found no errors.  I then ran CPU-Z and confirmed that DIMM 2 and DIMM 4 had 8GB each of DDR4 SDRAM for a total of 16GB.  Is this DIMM configuration for SDRAM a problem rather than the user manual recommendation of using DIMM 1 and DIMM 3 if using two sticks of SDRAM?  Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

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August 8th, 2018 18:00

I saw it but thought it was for the CPU.

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June 25th, 2019 13:00

Here is a youtube video that shows a picture of the the factory, default installation of two 8 gb memory modules.  You can see clearly that the factory installation uses the white slots.  That should help settle the question about which two slots to use when adding a second memory stick  The picture of the factory installed RAM is at the 2:25 mark.  The link is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XidCQmusjxY

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