Check if a triple channel ITX motherboard fits your setup.
Check if a triple channel ITX motherboard fits your setup.
It’s an idea for a future motherboard design. Can it actually be made?
TRX40 works with single, dual, or quad configurations depending on the motherboard manual you check.
Processors that support QUAD channel also do this interleaving thing but with 4 memory channels, and therefore 4 memory sticks. So it's even better. it seems like you're stuck with this triple channel speed, when it fact it's nothing special. Processors (because the memory controller is inside the processor) also do it with dual channel. There's also the fancy Threadripper Pro processors which have EIGHT channels, each with one memory stick : https://www.pcworld.com/article/3566078/...pport.html Even more - and that screenshot doesn't tell you - is that there's also the concept of DUAL RANK memory sticks, which do something similar. The memory controller can issue some commands to ONE HALF of the memory stick and while that half prepares data (reads it from memory chips and makes it ready to be pushed through the wires to the CPU), the processor actually transfers data from the other half of the memory stick. In REAL WORLD, the benefits of that interleaving and reduction of latency is super small, basically you wouldn't notice it. In ITX boards, you're limited to 2 memory sticks because PHYSICALLY there's no room on the motherboard for more. It may LOOK like there's not, but wherever it looks like there's space for some, imagine there's lots of wires going all over the place through the circuit board, in multiple layers. In order to put memory slots, there has to be unused areas for the metal pins inside the ram slots to go through and those will block the path of various wires inside the motherboard. Some motherboards solve this problem by using laptop style SO-DIMM sticks instead of the long memory slots, but those bring their own complexity, it's not a solution.