interleaved mode

[Guest]

i've got a pair of 1gig (2gb total) crucial ballistix tracer memory (PC2-8500C5 DDR2) running in dual channel interleaved mode, on the bios memory is set at 1066mhz but cpu-z is showing them running at 500.9mhz (FSBRAM=2:3) is this becuase of interleaved mode? Also what does interleaved mode actually do and is it better?

thanks

 

[dengamle]

DDR RAM is active twice per clock cycle, so multiply the real clock by two to get the effective.

Dual channel interleaved is what Intel calls it when you run in "true" dual channel mode: the workload is spread between the two channels by the memory controller