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    Is loss of Dual Channel in upgrade significant?

    Okay, sytems specs with Botmatch are: Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz Memory: 512MB RAM DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Card name...
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    Is loss of Dual Channel in upgrade significant?

    Unfortunately the 290Mb download bombed-out last night. flashed the bios - now on F10 am downloading 5.10 board drivers and nbench if anyone is using that If anyone has a GA-K8NSNXP (non-939) with 3200+ CPU, I'd dearly appreciate some stats for comparison
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    Is loss of Dual Channel in upgrade significant?

    OK, I'm downloading the UT2004 demo as we speak. And have grabbed the latest NVIDIA Windows nForce (Chipset) Drivers from Gigabyte (503). One other thing does anyone know if slot #1 the best position for a single stick of memory (on this 3-slot board).
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    Is loss of Dual Channel in upgrade significant?

    Thanks for the pointers. In CPU Z, the CPU page says "AMD Athlon 64 3200+" Core Speed: 2210.8Mhz Multiplier: x11.0 HTT: 201Mhz The Memory page says: Frequency: 201.0Mhz FSB:DRAM: CPU/11.0 Then on the SPD page I noticed: Module Size: 512Mb Max Bandwidth: PC3200...
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    Is loss of Dual Channel in upgrade significant?

    Hi, Yes, I always do a clean install for the reasons you mention (with a reformat of the XP partition). I'm pretty sure the memory is running at 400Mhz. I've not tweaked them, so they'd be default. I've just started reading-up about latency settings and wondered if these are commonly...
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    Is loss of Dual Channel in upgrade significant?

    When I upgraded from a Gigabyte 7N400 L1 (nforce2) with AthlonXP 2600 and 2*256 DDR - Dual Ch to a Gigabyte 8NSNXP (nForce3) with Athlon64 3200 and 1*512 DDR - Single Ch. The increase in speed was significantly lower than I'd expected (3dMark even gave a lower result after the upgrade)...