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?
Install two identical modules in channels A and B, leaving channel C empty
Install three identical memory modules in the slots that belong to channel A only
Populate all available slots with DIMMs of mixed capacities and speeds
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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