1 Slot Ram Motherboard
See it on Newegg; CPU Socket: LGA1200 Chipset: Z490 Memory Slots: 4 x DDR4 Channel Support: Dual Max Memory Speed: 5,000MHz Max Memory Capacity: 128GB Expansion Slots: 1 x PCIe 3.0 x16; 1 x PCIe 3. GIGABYTE X399 AORUS XTREME sTR4 AMD X399 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 Extended ATX AMD Motherboard. Limited time offer, ends 02/28. Number of Memory Slots: 8×288pin Memory Standard: Support for DDR4 3600+.(O.C.)/ 3466+(O.C.)/ 2933/ 2667/ 2400/ 2133 MHz memory modules. Recommend to use a 1st Gen. Ryzen Threadripper processor to achieve 3600 MHz (O.C.) speed. There are also converter cards, known as Slotkets, which hold a Socket 8 so that a Pentium Pro CPU can be used with Slot 1 motherboards. These specific converters, however, are rare. Another kind of slotket allows using a Socket 370 CPU in a Slot 1. ASRock B450 Gaming-ITX/AC. Chipset: B450 Overclocking Support: Yes SATA Ports: 4 M.2 Slots.
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I have a lot of system building experience, and generally held the belief that bad RAM slots on motherboards are uncommon. The first one I encountered was a couple of years ago - I opened up a brand new ITX celeron board and I eventually discovered that one of the RAM slots was bad. The motherboard wouldn't boot with any RAM installed in one of the two RAM slots on the motherboard - remove RAM from that slot, and the system booted fine with RAM in the other slot only. (Of course I had been storing the board for long enough that it was out of warranty, but that's another story...) I suspected a bad solder joint or tin whisker somewhere on the bad RAM slot, but my soldering iron was misplaced a while ago, and a visual inspection of the underside of the board looked OK.
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On dual processor Xeon boards I have further findings:
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- If the blue (primary) RAM slot in a channel is bad, that whole channel is unusable
- If the first blue slot for a CPU is bad, that CPU socket is unusable
- If a non-blue slot is bad, usually only that slot is bad