Dual channel?

[hajalie24]

Currently my ram is running at single channel, i have no idea why but i think i may be able to fix it if i play around with my ram. Is there a noticable difference between single channel and dual?

[glock19owner]

yes there is...system will run faster and more smoothly...thats the biggest key point but there a other benifits to running dual channel over single...

[hajalie24]

alright, im going to play around with my ram sticks and try to make it dual channel.

[18 is # 1]

alright, im going to play around with my ram sticks and try to make it dual channel.

When that happened to me, I had a stick incorrectly seated. Does CPU-Z show the correct GBs?

[CGR]

The only real benefit I have seen with dual vs single channel is in memory benchmarks..

[hajalie24]

i got it running, stupid me had one stick in the white and one in the blue slot lol, and yes cpu'z does show 4gb although vista shows 18gb lol

[Joor]

Currently my ram is running at single channel, i have no idea why but i think i may be able to fix it if i play around with my ram. Is there a noticable difference between single channel and dual?
yes there is...system will run faster and more smoothly...thats the biggest key point but there a other benifits to running dual channel over single...

That was true on the old amd 939 boards - its not like that anymore.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/PARALLEL-PROCESSING,1705-11.html

[BeHappy]

18gb would be nice...

[Zerix01]

Single vs dual channel is basically a 64-bit bus vs a 128-bit bus. Doubling the bus bandwidth improves performance far more than over clocking the RAM. Weather or not you notice the speed improvement you should still set it up in dual channel, it is the same as having a dual core processor and disabling one core, you just halved the possible bandwidth.