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sspifftoday at 5:56 AM0 repliesview on HN

It's a common issue on consumer boards with DDR5 and more than two DIMMs installed.

Doesn’t affect soldered memory or lower speed memory (like DDR4). Many memory controllers fail to achieve good speeds and timings at all on 4 DDR5 DIMMs, and fall back to running DDR5 at 3600MHz instead.