Single Channel RAM in dual mode?

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Is this ok?

I put my RAM next to eachother in my board and CPU-Z came up as Dual mode...but it's only single channel RAM? Is this right?

Also, it seems my RAM being in dual-mode stops me getting a good overclock. When the RAM is in slots 1 and 3, I get a much better overclock.

Anyone know why?

Cheers

------------------------------ Gigabyte GA-MA78LM-S2H
AMD X4 965
Palit GTX 460 2Gb
2Gb Ram (need more!)
Reply to mrsav25

Read your motherboard manual. There's probably 4 DIMM slots, correct? Using two side by side should indeed be only single channel while 1 and 3 is probably dual channel (mine it's 2 and 4). Not sure why having both sticks in one channel causes a worse OC tho... could be voltage, or some sort of imbalance/bottleneck.

I don't think there is such a thing as single channel RAM, as far as what an individual stick supports. Using the right DIMM slots will make it single or dual channel accordingly.

Reply to wolfram23

Watch this space - will do a bit of testing...cheers

------------------------------ Gigabyte GA-MA78LM-S2H
AMD X4 965
Palit GTX 460 2Gb
2Gb Ram (need more!)
Reply to mrsav25

Here is my MOBO:

[url=http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/motherboards/detail_overview.aspx?ID=en-us0000359][/url]

The manual does not indicate which slots to use - but they are coloured so I'm going to guess it's 1+2 and 3+4?

Reply to mrsav25

Ok i'm typing this whilst the RAM is sitting in Dual mode, and all seems ok

I think you were right about the timings - I must have had the RAM at 800Mhz before when in dual mode.

CPU-Z doesnt show anything different, but Can i assume it will be running faster in dual mode?

------------------------------ Gigabyte GA-MA78LM-S2H
AMD X4 965
Palit GTX 460 2Gb
2Gb Ram (need more!)
Reply to mrsav25

Yeah it should definitely be faster in dual.

Reply to wolfram23

Solved! Cheers lads!

------------------------------ Gigabyte GA-MA78LM-S2H
AMD X4 965
Palit GTX 460 2Gb
2Gb Ram (need more!)
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