blue or black slot?

[grazhopper]

kind of a dumb question but i lost my manual and I forgot which slots(blue or black) my 3 sticks of ram go in for my MSI x58 Pro-e motherboard.

 

[johnb35]

It shouldn't matter, the same color just designates triple channel. Either should work fine.

 

[Aastii]

kind of a dumb question but i lost my manual and I forgot which slots(blue or black) my 3 sticks of ram go in for my MSI x58 Pro-e motherboard.

It shouldn't matter, the same color just designates triple channel. Either should work fine.

Actually, and don't ask me the ins and outs of why, I just know it is true, you should use the set closest to the CPU. It makes for more stability in OCing and slightly better speed or something apparently. So if the first slot next to the CPU is black, use the black set, if it is the blue, use the blue

I posted saying it doesn't matter in the OcUK forums and got told differently and they posted up why and proof of it, I can't find it now though, but apparently it is true

 

[johnb35]

I just looked in the manual and it says to install to dim_A0 first which is the black, so use the black ones first.

Here is the download link for the manual.

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=manual&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1804