Dual Channel + 1? Will it work?

[silvereclipse001]

I have a gigabyte PA67A-D3-B3 mobo.  It has 4 ram slots.  I installed a coolermaster 212 evo and lost a ram slot.  I currently have two 2 gig corsair xms3 dual channel chips running on the one channel (for 4 gigs dual channel).  Can I purchase and use one 8 gig ram strip in the other channel?  Basically I'm aiming for 12 gigs but I don't want to install one 8 gig chip across from the two 2's and have it do all of the work anyway. I've looked on the forum and can't find anything on it.  Help would be appreciated.

[Gloup_Gloup]

Hi silvereclipse001,

The motor of Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus is audible.

Source in french... view picture below.
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/824-9/comparatif-15-ventirads-abordables.html

I come back more later. I search on Internet but here, in my home... the clock is : 02:44 am.   

But about your question... maybe you have a possibility to Up the fan on heatsink. Try to move a fan on Up...
If is possible, the stick of ram have a possibility to inserted on Bank no 1 (near CPU).

Excuse my english... is not very well. 

Gloup_Gloup

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

It might be possible to move the fan upwards as Gloup_Gloup suggested or to even move the fan to the opposite side of the fins so that it acts like a puller rather than a pusher, the effect on performance would be negligable.

If you cannot get around the problem in this way though I don't see why you shouldn't do what you want to but you would have the same chance of failure/success as any time when you add more memory to an existing kit.

[silvereclipse001]

I'm not too worried about moving the fan, I just want to make sure the memory would all "work together."  I don't want the 8 gig chip doing all the ram work.  My question was more about the ram and the way the motherboard would handle the configuration of 2 dual channel + 1. I'm fine with only having 3 slots if they do what I want.

[Dark Mantis]

The chances are that it will work but when you want to try something a little bit "unusual" obviously there is an element of risk as to whether it will actually work as it should do. Your call!