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08-20-2004, 01:51 PM
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Dual Channel 3 Dimm filled
Okay, you know, many motherboards have dual channel capability. For example, lets take one with 4 memory slots. If I want to put three sticks of the same ram in, will the two in matching dual channel slots work in a dual channel combination, while the xtra works singely? So, can I have 3 of the same 512mb ram and have dual channel work? Or can I have 2 x 512 and 2 x 256, and it will work dual channel? Thanks. I want to have 1536 ram work in a dual channel format. Is it possible?
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08-20-2004, 01:59 PM
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No, you can't have 2 sticks working in dual channel and one stick in single channel. It's either dual channel, or not.
3 sticks of RAM only work in dual channel mode on certain boards (I think only the AMD boards that have only 3 slots, not the ones that have 4). RJ
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08-20-2004, 02:04 PM
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congrats on your 6000th post, down with airbus, boeing all the way!
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08-21-2004, 05:14 AM
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Sigmaseven it's like AMD-Intel, if it wasn't for Airbus, Boeing would have a complete monopoly in the business, so Airbus' presence is good for the costumer.
As for the RAM issue, yes you can run Dual-Dual Channel (as I have dubbed it) if you have 2 x 512mb in dual channel configuration and 2 x 256mb in dual channel configuration (the two 512mb in slots 1 and 3 and the two 256mb in slots 2 and 4 for a 4-DIMM Asus mobo). |
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08-21-2004, 09:19 AM
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I know...... thanks a lot man!
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08-21-2004, 09:49 AM
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you can run DC with all 3 DIMM slots populated. the only way is to have either 2x256MB in slots 1 and 2...and a 512MB in slot 3. or you can have 2x512MB in slots 1 and 2...and a 1GB stick in slot 3. the first 2 slots must add up to match the capacity of the DIMM in slot 3. this is for nforce2 boards of course.
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08-21-2004, 09:25 PM
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that's all nice and dandy.. but there's not performance increase at all (at least on my system) running DC... I stlil get the same bandwidth even with dual channel.... Why would they put DC on a board if it's not going to run well with the processor and such? (since DC isn't great for the AMD xp class)
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08-22-2004, 05:33 AM
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It should still improve performance on an XP system by 5-10%.
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