Dual channel DDR question

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:59 pm

Currently I have an Asus A7N8X with a 2000+ athlon xp on it and 2x256mb ddr266 ram sticks running in single channel. I'm looking to buy a 512mb ram stick so that I'd have 1 gig of ram total, I'm wondering if I should look for a dual channel 512mb stick or how the hell does that work anyway?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:03 pm

to run dual, you need two of the same sticks.. so 2X512 will give you a gig dual channel.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:01 pm

Can I run 2x256mb? Do they have to be specified as dual channel?

Post by **Kills On Site** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:39 pm

Dual channel works if two sticks of RAM are in the correct slots and are same speced, meaning size, speed, and latencies I believe.
Now as long as RAM follows those specs and are in the correct spots they should become dual channel.

I would check to make sure the RAM sticks are in the same color slots and look in your BIOS for options

Post by **SoM** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:44 pm

ToxicBug wrote:Can I run 2x256mb? Do they have to be specified as dual channel?

you can run 2x256 dual channel but they have to be in the correct slots..

1 / 3

2 / 3

thats how it is for my mobo

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:50 am

Ok, my motherboard has 2 blue ram slots and 1 black ram slot, so I moved one stick into the blue slot, since the other one was already in a blue slot, booted, BIOS shows that its running in dual channel mode. Timedemo'd quake 3:

Before: 173fps
After: 177fps

\o/