Dual Channel Vs. Single Channel

[foycur]

Hello everyone!
I have tried to search the board for the most basic of answers, but perhaps you are all too advanced for me. I have a home built system that I inherited and started to tinker with.....eventually upgraded to asus p4p8x motherboard, Pentium IV 2.8 gHZ, ATI Radeon 9600SE, Soundmax integrated audio on the board, and 1 GB DDR3200 Kingston memory (2 x 512 MB modules). My motherboard guide suggested I use the two modules to take advantage of dual channel vs. single channel memory. My question is......is there a drawback to setting up memory as dual channel?

 

[Crashman]

Dual Channel can push memory that's at the edge of stability over the edge.

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[Coyote]

......is there a drawback to setting up memory as dual channel?

Not really, some get better results overclocking with single. But ur not OC'ing. Download memtest86 (free program, just "Google it") set up dual channel and run memtest86. Chances are it'll do fine

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