I try to rotate mine every 3 months to help prevent any shorts or memory errors. I have came up with this pattern so the sticks cycle through each slot over time to prevent repeats in short periods.
is that really necessary?
Yeah, if you haven't been doing it you really should, it's not necessary but it extends the life of nearly every part. It also helps increase fps by a few.
any proof? articles?
the LULZ i am having right now, Oh sweet jeebus.
If you can provide any articles that prove that works that would be great. Otherwise I see more issues coming from user error from the romoval and reinsertion of the parts than anything else.
Space Pope says "touching your RAM is unnatural and a space sin."
yeah im findin this hard to believe, proof would be apreciated. and what if you only use 2 sticks?
I dont my xigmatek Elysium to big and heavy to keep opening up all the time, I only change the water in my res once a year, and that is because I use a Bay Res.
As much as I'd like to say theres method in this bizzare madness, I can't find anything that supports this.
A computer doesn't use a certain stick more than any others. Hence the name Random Access Memory
- zanginator
How does this work? Never heard of anything like this. Me, personally, think it's total BS.. but whatever. If you can prove it works, i'll be happy to believe it.
I oftenly never rotate my ram, but if i do i pop one out and rotate it 360 degrees then pop it back in just to be sure. Common knowledge dude. ];> you'd be better off just talking dirty to your ram, you know, for moral support and to show you care. Ram is usually neglected from love and attention.
I rotate mine when I rotate my tires and replace the batteries in my smoke detectors. Which is never.
I rotate mine when I make my homework which is never.
I never have, and don't plan on it. I really doubt that any stick is used more than any other. also, if your going to do it, do it like this:
|A|B|C|D| ----> |D|C|B|A|
there is actually a very good reason to rotate your tires. because you tend to follow the same route most of the time, it causes uneven wearing of your tires; rotating them makes a set last longer, and keeps traction even.
Well, in THEORY, if you have a defective board it might help removing stress from a single stick...
In practice, you are multiplying your chances to break something a few times a year...
I "rotate" mine when I change my Mobo... usually twice a year... sometimes... since most of the time I sell the whole bundle.
Hahahahahahaha, nice.
logically it doesn't make sense to rotate memory in a dual, triple or a quad channel setup with the way memory reads/writes and if you had only a single memory stick there is nothing to rotate except out. this link below might help you understand.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Everything-You-Need-to-Know-About-the-Dual-Triple-and-Quad-Channel-Memory-Architectures/133/3
http://www.ehow.com/how_4484730_rotate-tires-dodge-ram.html
i would have expected more of a posed question about the difference between memory being accessed in parallelism in ganged or unganged mode.
http://www.ilsistemista.net/index.php/hardware-analysis/3-the-phenom-phenomii-memory-controller-and-the-ganged-vs-unganged-question.html?start=1