Vic Mackey Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 i have 3 sticks of corsair xms memory(512 each). would i benefit more from having 1.5GB total ram or 1GB of dual channel? does one setting give better performance than the other? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martymcfly Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 1gb dual channel. Unless you are doing very ram intrensive stuff. if not, you will probably never use the extra 512. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spazmire11 Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 dual channel! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Raven65 Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 Go with the dual channel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crash Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swifty11212 Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 can you do dc with 4 sticks of same ram? this is a overall question because i know you cant do this on a winnie with out problems. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FxXP Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 You won't be able to run three sticks of RAM on the nForce3/4 chipsets anyways. It is only 1, 2, or 4. Seeing that you are running an nForce2 based board, you are running dual channel with the three RAM slots being used. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Mackey Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 yea when i had 3 sticks inside the BIOS said that dual channel was enabled. can i run 3 sticks and still get dual channel on my mobo? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 You can but i dont know how effective it is in real world performance. Why not try it both ways and benchmark it with something like SiSoftware Sandra. That might tell you which version has the higher bandwidth etc. but if you like OCing then 2 sticks is probibly doing to be the way to go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trey Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 its possible to run the two sticks in dual channel then have 512 on the side ON SOME MOTHERBOARDS as long as those two sticks are exactly the same if your mobo is dumb, then pull out the 3rd stick and leave it dual channel Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewlboxer2 Posted June 18, 2005 Posted June 18, 2005 i thought on the nf2 board you could run DC with 3 sticks as long as the first 2 sticks were the same (ie 512), but then the third stick had to be double the capacity of the first sticks(ie 1gig) that would be a total of 2gigs of DC memory. Correct me if im wrong Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravix Posted June 22, 2005 Posted June 22, 2005 kewlboxer2, thats right. I used to run 256x256x512, and it ran in dual channel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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