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MrPanther0   11-10-2003 at 03:26:16 AM

EVERYONE preaches dual channel setups are the big thing in chipsets right now. So i listen and buy an Asus a7n8x-x( im cheap) and slap 2 512 MB Ram at 166 MHZ each.... when i boot it says single channel mode... how do i "enable" dual channel? do they ahve to be in certain DIMM slots>?

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Prof133   11-10-2003 at 04:01:53 AM
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I'm sorry, the said motherboard doesn't feature Dual-Channel as it uses the nForce2 400 chipset which has the second channel disabled.

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Prof133   11-10-2003 at 04:11:09 AM
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About a 2-4 percent performance advantage for Dual-Channel versus Single-Channel.

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twofruitz   11-10-2003 at 09:33:54 AM
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2-4% i was told 10to20

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Prof133   11-10-2003 at 11:57:54 AM
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Here's a <A HREF="http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/nforce2-1vs2channels/" target="_new">good article</A>. But, if this was the i875/i865 chipsets then the performance gap between single- and dual-channel would be wider, compared to nForce2.

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Crashman   11-11-2003 at 01:12:21 AM
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AMD has a DDR bus, Intel has a QDR bus, hence the small gain for dual channel on AMD, and the larger gain for dual channel on the P4.

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