How to Install and Setup DDR5 and DDR4 RAM in a PC

hey welcome to another episode in basic PC Building this video is going to be all about the installation and configuration of ram it's actually really easy to do as long as you know your way around a motherboard and basic system bios settings if you have no idea what any of that stuff means don't worry about it because that's the whole point of this video I'm going to show you everything you need to know to get up and running with your new Ram let's do it this is the motherboard I'm going to be using it's an Intel board meeting it's designed to accept Intel CPUs and it supports ddr4 Ram you're probably going to notice that there's also ddr5 available ddr5 is the latest PC memory standard it's the successor to ddr4 which has basically been the industry standard for years now the reason I'm mentioning this is because it's very important to make sure you buy the right RAM for your motherboard whether that's for a new system that you're building or an upgrade for an existing one ddr4 motherboards will only accept ddr4 RAM and ddr5 motherboards will only accept ddr5 you can't mix the two so make sure you take your time and pay attention when you're picking out your parts all right so if we take a look at our motherboard we can find our dim slots there's four of them here in a bank all clustered together on the board and that's typical your board should look the same as that and if you're wondering what dim stands for it's dual inline memory module and that's where we're going to install our Ram there's a few important details you're going to want to know before you start sticking your RAM in here the first thing is slot configuration if we look next to the dimms there's a detail printed right on the motherboard that's going to tell us how our dimms are laid out so it says we have slots A1 A2 B1 and B2 and that corresponds to the slots right next to it in the bank slot A1 slot A2 B1 and B2 the most common Ram kits available today come with either two or four modules and that's because they're designed to work together in what's called dual Channel mode dual Channel offers some performance benefits over single Channel and it requires two modules to work so that's why you're going to see systems are most typically going to have either two or four modules and not one or three so for this tutorial I've got a kit of two ddr4 memory modules now if we go back to that little dim layout that's printed on the motherboard it's telling us that we need to use slots A2 and B2 first in order to optimize performance some motherboards just have a little star printed next to the slots that it wants you to use and that's fine too it's exactly the same thing and you can also check your motherboard manual for further information on RAM configurations if you want to double check Ram modules have a few notches that need to line up properly with the slot these notches on either end are what's going to allow the Locking Clips to hold the module into place and this notch on the bottom where the contact pins are is going to make sure the module can only be inserted one way so it's kind of foolproof in the sense that you really can't put it in any way other than the right way so if we come over here we can press down on the little Clips on each side to open them up on the two slots that we need some boards only have one set of clips that you have to open but on this one there's a set on both sides of the dimms either way though the process of getting the module installed is exactly the same so don't worry if your board only has a clip on one end now we can take our first Ram module and make sure the little Notch at the bottom here lines up with the little key in the slot and you can see that down here on the dim and then we'll just line it up on both sides and press straight down until those Clips close and it locks into place and when you're doing that make sure you press straight down with even pressure on either side of the module you don't want to be off on an angle and putting awkward or uneven pressure on it because you can actually damage your module or even your dim slot that way so be careful and press straight down okay now we can repeat the process with our second module line it up with the slot in the right direction and press straight down applying even pressure on both sides until it locks into place perfect so that's it for the actual hardware part there's really not much to it when it comes to installing RAM as long as you know what you're doing like I said before in the beginning of the video so now that we got that all installed the important part is going to be to make sure it's configured so that it can run at its rated speeds and timings which is very important if you want to get the performance out of your RAM that you paid for I've got another computer next to me right over here it's already all set up and running so that I can show you how to do that part we're going to jump into the system bios and I'm going to go through some settings and show you what to do to get into the BIOS during the startup sequence you just press the delete key or on some systems it's F2 or sometimes both you can use either or now this is an Asus motherboard and that's what the the BIOS looks like on here each manufacturer kind of puts their own little creative spin on it so it might not look exactly like this but the basic functions are the same the whole idea behind bios is it's the basic configuration for all your system Hardware so on this screen there's all sorts of detailed information about your PC and the system Hardware that you have installed so you can see what CPU there is the core voltage motherboard temperature what type of storage drives are connected fan curves fan speeds all sorts of things but today we're really only worried about the memory profile so because this is an Intel system I'm looking for XMP which stands for extreme memory profile but that is a bit of a different name it's called docp if you're running an AMD system so on here I'm just going to tab down using the arrow keys on my keyboard down to where it says XMP and by default that's going to be disabled so I'm going to press enter to open the menu and switch that to enabled and press enter again so now right away as soon as I hit enabled you can see that the systems pulling the information from those memory modules and showing us what that configuration looks like so we've got ddr5 it's supposed to be running at 5200 megahertz with timings of 40 40 80 and at 1.2 volts so at this point I can actually save these settings and go into windows and everything should be working properly but just for the sake of this video I want to jump over to advanced mode and show you what's happening in more detail behind the scenes so I'm just going to tab over to where I have advanced mode and turn that on okay now from this screen I have some different options so an AI tweaker tab which is where I am now if I open up AI overclock tuner there's Auto manual xmp1 and xmp2 so manual who wants that when you have XMP that does all the work for you you're not going to manually key in all this information so let's ignore that and we don't want Auto either so we're really concerned about the XMP profiles and if you read the bottom of the screen it kind of gives you a bit of a rundown what those profiles do and sort of how they differ but for me I always just stick with profile one so we'll hit enter there and right here again that's just like we saw on the previous screen when it was in Easy Mode it kind of tells you the ddr5 5200 megahertz and the timings and the voltage that's just your basic information but now if we scroll down here we should be able to find the dram timing control so if we open that up there you go so there's the details of what's Happening behind the scenes here the main timings are the first four numbers right there that's the cast latency and the ones that come after it so you can see we've got 40 40 80 and then the command rate set to Auto you can key that in manually if you know what it is it's usually printed on a little sticker on the ram modules but I'm going to leave it on auto because I'm going to trust the XMP profile to pull the right information so yeah basically everything looks good we enabled XMP pulled all the information and our Ram should be configured and running at its appropriate setting so to save this when you're in your bios you can just press F10 and that's going to pull this screen up that shows everything that basically changed we've gone from auto mode to cdr5 5200 megahertz the cast latency set all the other timings are set the voltages are set and everything looks good so I'm just going to hit enter and boot into windows the system booted into Windows without any issues so I'm going to go ahead and assume everything's good but just to make sure that we're getting the right speeds on our Ram we can press Ctrl alt delete on the keyboard go over to the task manager and then we can go to the performance Tab and click on memory and there we go we can see we've got our 32 gigabytes of memory and it's running at 5200 megahertz so that means everything's looking good and our configuration worked all right guys thanks for watching I really hope this video helped you if it did give it a thumbs up and get subscribed because there's more content like this on the way and we'll see you soon [Music]

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Id: lgis08c_NfQ

Length: 8min 25sec (505 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 31 2022