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My motherboard, an Asus P5Q SE LGA775 ATX PCI-E EPU MB, has four DDR2 memory slots, with Dual-Channel architecture. Please correct me if i'm wrong, but does that mean that I can use them for four sticks @ single channel, or 2 x 2 sticks dual channel? or is it only dual channel? That part confuses me. Anyways, I was planning on getting two OCZ 2P8004GK 2x2G PC2-6400 Platinum Kits. Do I need dual-channel capable RAM, or does any RAM run in dual-channel if I have two of the exact same type in each slot? With the two kits, I'll have four sticks of 2GB (all of the same type); so I was wondering if that RAM is capable of being used Dual-Channel. If so, i'd rather go 4GB dual-channel, but if not, I guess I'll have to go 8GB single-channel (I know there's no point to it as nothing uses that much, but it would still be fun to have). Information much appreciated :)
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| so, If i get two 2x2GB kits, that means I can run 4GB in dual channel mode? eh, i wonder how much of an increase in performance i'll get
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I don't think you will get much performance difference in dual channel mode. I am not sure about how much improvement. Paphman910 |
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my new rig will have vista 64-bit, so don't worry about that. so you're telling me I indeed can have 4GB dual-channel? (two pairs of two sticks)
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awesome :) just out of curiosity, what does dual-channel offer in benefits anyways? simultaneous acess or something? Ive always wondered.
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Basically it doubles the amount of available memory bandwidth by adding a second parallel channel. This second channel reduces the bottleneck of mem keeping up with processor speed. For performance, dual channel gives about a 5% gain in mem intensive tasks.
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Also, regarding dual channel. I noticed huge drop in gaming performance using single channel mode, even though memory benchmarks shows little change in performance. |
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That would be frickin uselessly awesome though--16GB of RAM.
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iRAM? what's that?
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