Asus A7N8X-X not running dual channel

[Radical789]

I must be missing a jumper or a setting somewhere. I have 2 pieces of memory on the mb but it says it is running in single channel mode. I couldn't find (or I keep overlooking) anything about turning that on/off in the manual.
Any ideas?

 

[DieHardware]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1401320&enterthread=y&arctab=y

 

[imverygifted]

it can't the A7N8X-X is stripped down thereby its not capable of dual channel

 

[3chordcharlie]

yup - the good news is it doens't really make much difference.

 

[boyRacer]

Yep it's not supposed to be dual channel. what's funny is put the memory on slots 1&3 then run cpu-z and it says dual channel... lol.

 

[Radical789]

I see from the replies that there is another person with the same Q. Maybe according to the "specs" it's only supposed to run single channel but when I purchased the same board, CPU and memory from a dealer and they set it up, it ran dual channel. When I purchased these parts spearately the sales person asked if I wanted the 2 pieces of RAM so it would run DC. In the machine set up by the dealer, the RAM is in slot 1 & 2 and it's running DC.

CPU AMD 3200, 512 PC3200 400FSB

I will call their techies to find out what they did to make it DC.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: bR
Yep it's not supposed to be dual channel. what's funny is put the memory on slots 1&3 then run cpu-z and it says dual channel... lol.

You know I had the same thing happen to me also,it's a single channel board but when i put 2 sticks of ram in it cpu-z said it was running dual. lol .

I even took a Screenshot.

 

[imported_fatal]

Wow, it is only single channel...Really doesn't matter, performance increase is negligible

 

[Radical789]

Since DC doesn't really improve performance much I won't worry about it. Thanks for the feedback from everyone.