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But there is no single configuration where having 4 DIMMs populated gives higher speeds than when 4 DIMMs are populated on the same configuration. This is because while the higher end parts tend to have the higher binned components they still inly have 1 shared memory die between the CCD and the motherboard topology is either it has 4 slots or it doesn't, but no matter how they are ran it's still better to only use 1 rank of each channel.