The MOD Father
Is DUAL channel memory a marketing tool?
I'm all for LOTS of memory,, but
what happens when you have say,
2X1gb sticks and want to add a third?
or
more commonly
2X512 sticks
?
as lots of boards can now take up to 8gb its becoming increasing harder($$) to keep adding TWO modules each time
any ideas?
theories?
white papers?
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Swaggie
SubscriberYou only have to add them in pairs if you want the dual channel double data rate (DDR) to work. You can add any combination of DIMMs to any slot, but you lose the dual channel advantage.
If the memory module pairs are not the same density (i.e. capacity) then the dual channel won't work, so you need matched pairs.
Your motherboard manual will say what the valid combinations of slots/chips are.
Swaggie
SubscriberAlso - forgot to point out that dual channel motherboards will not have an odd number of slots, so if your motherboard only has 3 slots then it won't be a dual channel MB.
SysAdmin (Owner)
some dual channel boards do have only 3 slots.....
they switch from syncronous to asyncronous mode if ram is mismatched...
and some will treat the third stick as paged cache....
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Swaggie
SubscriberWell there you go - I stand corrected! All of ours are colour coded 4 socket, so just assumed you needed pairs.
The MOD Father
and this is a bad thing?Originally Posted by incisor
How much performance loss?
"How long since you've visited The Good Oil?"
'93 V8 Rossi
'97 to '07. sold.
'01 V8 D2
'06 to 10. written off.
'03 4.6 V8 HSE D2a with Tornado ECM
'10 to '21
'16.5 RRS SDV8
'21 to Infinity and Beyond!
1988 Isuzu Bus. V10 15L NA Diesel
Home is where you park it..
[IMG]
SysAdmin (Owner)
hardly visble to the naked eye in my experience..
2007 Discovery 3 SE7 TDV6 2.7
2012 SZ Territory TX 2.7 TDCi
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
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