16GB Ram But Only 7.98GB usable any ideas?

[Old Engine]

Build a custom build pc at christmas with 16GB ram and a big graphics card fancy case etc etc.

But when i go into the system it says 16GB ram But only 7.98gb is usable. Any suggestions on what this might be or how to fix it?

[[TC-R] Renegade]

What edition of windows are you running?

[[TC]►Frozen◄]

Also, how are your 16 GB's splitted?

4x 4GB?
2x 8GB?

[Old Engine]

(2016-05-06 20:41)Renegade Wrote:  What edition of windows are you running?

Windows 10 Pro

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(2016-05-06 20:44)Frozen Wrote:  Also, how are your 16 GB's splitted?

4x 4GB?
2x 8GB?

2x 8gb hyper x fury white

[[TC-R] Renegade]

What dimms are you using, and have you tried any others?

[Old Engine]

(2016-05-06 21:00)Renegade Wrote:  What dimms are you using, and have you tried any others?

Whats dimms?

[[TC-R] Renegade]

(2016-05-06 22:00)Type R Wrote:  

(2016-05-06 21:00)Renegade Wrote:  What dimms are you using, and have you tried any others?

Whats dimms?

What dimm slots are you using on your motherboard? Have you tried the ram in any other slots?

[Owl]

Tried swapping the Dimms?

[[TC-R] Adam]

Dimm slots are the slots that you put the RAM into, if you put them in them in the wrong arrangement then RAM might not work... Make sure that you put them in slots 2 and 4 first (if you don't know which ones are which, consult the manual).

[◄Chuck►]

(2016-05-07 15:45)k_badam Wrote:  Dimms are the slots that you put the RAM into,...

Just for the sake of correctness, the DIMMs are the actual memory modules, hence the name "dual inline memory module".

[[TC-R] Adam]

Sorry, changed to Dimm slots