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It turns out the Indigo2 I recently bought has some damaged memory slots in Bank A (closest to CPU). The machine still works, but two memory banks have the metal tabs missing that hold the memory in the slot. So, they're only being held in by one metal clip on one side.

Seems like the options are 1.) pay to have this repaired or get another motherboard, 2.) move all the memory to banks A and B, or 3.) leave it alone and hope it works reliably.

What's the downside of option 2, populating banks A and B? Is there a performance penalty from doing this?