So I purchased G Skill Trident Z RAM and one of the sticks were faulty but the good stick I had I inserted into 3rd slot into mobo and the computer wouldnt show any screen. I insert it in first slot and it works fine. So I took ram back and they said it was faulty and currently are sending me anither one. It had me worried that my motherboard could also be broken or faulty because the stick wasnt working inside of the 3rd slot. There any reason why this wouldnt work?

There has to be a RAM stick in the 2nd slot counting away from the CPU, for one stick operation.

You can also do it in the first slot, but the 2nd slot is better.

/e The 3rd and 4th slots are for dual channel...aka 2 sticks

This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 28 2016 01:08am

Normal 2 stick operation is 2nd & 4th slots or 1st & 3rd slots.

For 1 stick operation it should be either slot 2 or slot 1.

All these as counting away from the CPU.

Thank god. I thought my motherboard was broken. I cant wait to see if it really is a dream come true once I get this beast running

What was your parts list. ??

i7-6700k Skylake
GTX 1080 ASUS Strix
Corsair H110i GT
NZXT H440
Maximus VIII Hero Motherboard
650W EVGA
250GB SSD
1 TB WD Black HDD

Ok, I remember now.


Yeah, you'll be fine when your new RAM comes.










/e Btw, how are your temperatures?

This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 28 2016 09:21pm

63 C highest on GFX cards. But I havent bought any games to really test it. I just downloaded CSGO and LoL and D3. But I run it all on max settings obviously and highest it has reached was 63 C

How about the CPU?


You realize that Speccy is safe? Here's mine so you can see what we mean when we ask for a Speccy screenshot...

Don't be amazed at my temps..it's just AMD's weird way of dealing with core temps. :/

Im still waiting for the RAM to come or else I would show you the speccy