A technician is servicing a workstation with a motherboard that supports triple-channel DDR3 memory. To ensure the system achieves maximum memory bandwidth, which of the following RAM configurations should the technician implement?
Populate all available slots with DIMMs of mixed capacities and speeds
Install three identical memory modules in the slots that belong to channel A only
Install two identical modules in channels A and B, leaving channel C empty
Install three identical memory modules, one in the primary slot of each memory channel
Triple-channel mode interleaves data over three 64-bit memory channels (192-bit total). To enable it, you must install matching DIMMs of the same size and speed-one in each channel-so the memory controller can access all three channels simultaneously. Placing all three modules in a single channel, using only two channels, or mixing sizes/speeds forces the system to fall back to a slower mode or operate asymmetrically.
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