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Answer (1 of 6): Why do some motherboards have 2 RAM slots instead of 4? Other answers have it right that it is usually a cost savings measure but they don’t realise why it saves in costs. Basically, it costs more to engineer a mother board for two DIMMs per channel (i.e. four DIMM slots in tota...

This difference in notch position is also why you can't use DDR3 RAM in a DDR2 system or install DDR2 RAM into a DDR3 slot (even though they have the same number of pins).

Board layout & Appearance MSI motherboard’s of old have been a kaleidoscope of colours with pink ram slots being the bugbear of fashion freaks everywhere.