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I screwed up i bought dual channel instead of triple channel ddr3 mem

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ibewho   08-12-2009 at 07:38:56 PM

So, I bought 6 sticks of 2 gb OCZ 1600 mhz Dual channel sticks by accident. I meant to buy triple channel. What differences are there?

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ibewho   08-12-2009 at 07:40:19 PM

Oh I forgot the model is ocz pc3 12800 oczz3p1600 4gk if it makes a difference. Thanks for the help.

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sminlal   08-13-2009 at 03:44:20 AM

Are you saying that you got three 2GB x 2 kits instead of two 2GB x 3 kits? If so, I don't think there's any difference, other factors being equal.

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ibewho   08-14-2009 at 03:45:19 AM

i'm saying i bought ddr3 dual channel rams instead of ddr3 triple channel ram. Am i going to suffer a big performance loss?

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Bronze Motherboards badge o1die   08-14-2009 at 05:14:11 AM

No. It's all the same. The motherboard chipset and placement of the memory in certain slots determines whether it runs in dual or tripple channel mode.

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masterjaw   08-14-2009 at 05:37:06 AM

As long as the dimms are the same, it would be fine to run them in triple channel.

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Ancient_1   08-14-2009 at 01:21:38 PM

The main thing I would be concerned about is will it run the desired speeds at the voltages allowed by the x58. Most dual channel ram has been rated @ 1.8v+ and the limit of the x58 is 1.65.

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