Another question in that line of thought:
I bought just one stick of the Corsair Vengeance 4GB PC12800 DDR3 1600MHz ram b/c of budget issues but plan on adding another soon. I noticed this stick was deemed 'single' channel, other 4GB sticks of same name were called 'Dual channel'...is this function the fact the other sticks came in pairs ("dual"), or are they functionallly structured to operate different from say buying 2 4GB sticks of 'single' channel memory.
please excuse the novice-ness of the question but I'm painfully new to all of this terminology...but I'm find these forums fascinating, never knew they existed. All advice greatly appreciated.