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venkman   08-23-2003 at 06:15:05 AM

I just got a new motherboard and it has 3 dimms for memory. Two are next to eachother and one is slightly separated. I know you put one stick of dual channel in the separated one and one in one of the two that are next to eachother. Can you then add a third stick or does this reduce the performance. I hope this makes sense. I have a MSI K7N2 Delta mobo

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Prof133   08-23-2003 at 06:42:25 AM
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You can add a third stick and dual DDR would still be in effect. In order to keep the entire amount of memory in Dual DDR access mode, balance the memory across the two channels. 1x256MB+1x256MB, 1x512MB+1x512MB and 2x256MB+1x512MB are examples.

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jmecor   08-23-2003 at 10:04:05 AM
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that would be multi-channel, i thought dual-channel are only for 2-slot config only.

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Prof133   08-23-2003 at 03:54:16 PM
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Yeah, it's kind of confusing. One of the memory controllers has one memory slot while the other memory controller has two memory slots associated with it. The two memory slots that appear close together represent one channel and the distant looking memory slot represents the other channel. Two channels in all.

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Flinx   08-23-2003 at 04:14:19 PM
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Thats pretty good. If u don't have the cash to buy 1GB of memory to start u can get 2x256MB with dual channel and later on add a 512MB.

Anyone try this with different rated memory (Like PC3200 and PC4000)? I mean adding 512MB after. How did it work?

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