DDR3 in Tripples

deRusett

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Jul 30, 2002

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Midland, Ontario

• Sep 21, 2009

• #1

I am not so in tune with the Building of Desktops anymore,
I am looking at DDR3 packages and am wondering Why DDR3 is being bundles in 3 packs,

does DDR3 work better in triplet as DDR2 does in pairs?

 

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bchur83

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Jan 26, 2003

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Land of 10,000 Lakes

• Sep 21, 2009

• #2

Most DDR3 boards are Tri-Channel, but there are a few coming out for the Core i5 that are back to dual channel.

 

BossBorot

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Jul 7, 2006

• Sep 21, 2009

• #3

x58 boards have tripple channel memory so certain memory kits contain 3 sticks to sell to i7 owners. However i5 and AM3 are still only dual channel so two stick sets are still sold

 

Bobnova

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May 10, 2009

• Sep 21, 2009

• #4

Only x58 boards and core i7 9xx series use triple channel DDR3.
Everything else uses dual channel.