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- Mar 26, 2004
CPU-Z is telling me something I was not expecting, and now I am stumped.
I am running a motherboard that supports DDR400 dual channel mode. I bought two identical DDR400 PC3200 sticks (256MB each), in fact they were a Corsair kit for dual channel mode support.
When I boot up the initial bios screen recognizes the memory (512MB total) and says "Dual Channel Mode Enabled".
So that looks great so far.
However, when I use CPU-Z it is confusing me. On the memory tab, Channel # is just grayed out with no value, and Performance Mode says disabled.
I was expecting Channel # to say 2 or Dual, and I was expecting the Performance mode to say something to reflect I was running in dual mode too I guess.
Help! My system performance definitely improved with this new memory, but I was running DDR266 on a single 512MB stick prior to this upgrade, so I would expect a big improvement even if I was not in dual channel mode.
I just want a way to CONFIDENTLY know I am really utilizing the dual channel mode of my DDR400 sticks. I thought CPU-Z would do that for me, but it is leaving me even less confident than I was before I ran it.
Thanks!
I am running a motherboard that supports DDR400 dual channel mode. I bought two identical DDR400 PC3200 sticks (256MB each), in fact they were a Corsair kit for dual channel mode support.
When I boot up the initial bios screen recognizes the memory (512MB total) and says "Dual Channel Mode Enabled".
So that looks great so far.
However, when I use CPU-Z it is confusing me. On the memory tab, Channel # is just grayed out with no value, and Performance Mode says disabled.
I was expecting Channel # to say 2 or Dual, and I was expecting the Performance mode to say something to reflect I was running in dual mode too I guess.
Help! My system performance definitely improved with this new memory, but I was running DDR266 on a single 512MB stick prior to this upgrade, so I would expect a big improvement even if I was not in dual channel mode.
I just want a way to CONFIDENTLY know I am really utilizing the dual channel mode of my DDR400 sticks. I thought CPU-Z would do that for me, but it is leaving me even less confident than I was before I ran it.
Thanks!