Gigabyte H55N-USB3 Motherboard

Memory Support

Socket LGA1156 CPUs, like socket LGA1366 and AMD processors, have an embedded memory controller. This means that it is the processor – and not the chipset – that defines what memory technologies and maximum amount of memory you can have. The motherboard, however, may have a limitation as to how much memory can be installed.

At the moment the integrated memory controller in socket LGA1156 processors supports only DDR3 memories up to 1,333 MHz in a dual-channel architecture, however, Gigabyte says the H55N-USB3 supports DDR3 memories up to 1,666 MHz through overclocking. The H55N-USB3 has two DDR3 sockets and since at the moment each DDR3 memory module can have up to 4 GB, you can have up to 8 GB with this motherboard.

Since there are two memory sockets, you need to populate both of them in order to achieve the maximum possible performance, by enabling dual-channel architecture.

Figure 3: Memory modules, install two modules for the best performance