How much memory is my system using?

[XstollieX]

Well as stated in the subject, I am not sure what to believe as far as how much memory my system is using. I have 6gb installed in triple channel mode. In the BIOS it is seeing 4Gb only, windows says it is 4gb, CPUz says 6gb, WTF? I have shifted sticks around in triple channel and same result. Take the sticks out of triple channel and they show up in the BIOS fine. I am thinking that I have a dead memory slot...but it shows up in cpuz, I'm just a bit confused

BIOS Shot

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CPUz and windows

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If you have any suggestions I am all ears. I am running the latest available BIOS on the ASRock X58 Extreme3 board and the memory is a set of Corsair Dominator 1600MHz

[InspectahACE]

Have you run MemTest on each stick yet? I had a very similar issue on my Rampage II Extreme where it reported 2Gb or 4Gb...sometimes 6GB after a hard reboot. I thought it was the board until I tried them in a different mobo. Ran MemTest and sure enough, one of my Dominator sticks were showing tons of errors.

[XstollieX]

Just set it up in another machine and so far they are showing up normally. I am going to run memtest overnight. Just need to finish the build first.

Edit memtest 86+ 4.1 running at 1:15am

[XstollieX]

Well look like that kit took a crap on me time for an RMA Request

[InspectahACE]

Bummer dude. The only good ting I can say is, at least it wasn't a sea of red like I saw on the test I ran.

[XstollieX]

Sea of red or this, either way it needs to be RMA's

[InspectahACE]

Indeed