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Asus Rampage III Extreme User Manual

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2.4

System memory

2.4.1

Overview

The motherboard comes with six Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) Dual Inline Memory
Modules (DIMM) sockets.

A DDR3 module has the same physical dimensions as a DDR2 DIMM but is
notched differently to prevent installation on a DDR2 DIMM socket. DDR3 modules
are developed for better performance with less power consumption.

The figure illustrates the location of the DDR3 DIMM sockets:

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