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GladiusB@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The MB probably doesn’t jive with the GPU. Look up online for the MB manufacturer if it supports that sort of GPU.
If your RAM is seated as 1 and 2, make it 1 and 3 or 2 and 4.
Fans usually means the BIOS is recognizing some hardware as funky. I had this same issue when I bought RAM that was incompatible with my MB.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Unless the GPU is an Arc, compatibility between the motherboard and GPU shouldn’t affect much more than the maximum performance you can squeeze out of the GPU. As a protocol, PCIe is backwards compatible.
Never assume. RTFM when trying to use dual channel memory.