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These recommended configurations satisfy balanced conditions by requiring each memory channel to be populated with one or two identical DIMMs. By doing this, one interleave set can optimally distribute memory access requests across all the available DIMM slots; therefore, maximizing performance. Memory controller logic was designed around fully populated memory channels, so it should come as no surprise that eight or sixteen populated DIMMs are recommended. Having eight DIMMs will reap the highest memory bandwidth while having sixteen DIMMs will yield the highest memory capacity.