Asus K8S-MX and Dual-Channel DDR400??

[imported_littlej]

Hi,

I have been looking at this asus board and the asus page says it's Dual-Channel DDR400. This is a socket 754 board with onboard graphics. I plan on using the igp as i only surf the web and watch some divx type movies.

Asus k8s-mx

I thought that skt 754 did not use dual channel. Do I need 2 sticks of ram to take advantage of it? Is it a big advantage?

Thanks

Jason

 

[Megatomic]

You are correct, s754 A64 chips are not DC enabled. And this is not the only board I've seen falsely advertised to implement dual channel. I think they (the manufacturers) are in the habit of saying dual channel.

 

[imported_littlej]

thx for the info.

 

[Peter]

Absolutely. Socket-754 processors have only one RAM channel.

 

[Bar81]

Nice choice on the mobo, you will be very happy. Dual channel will give you no noticeable improvement (it's 3-5% but you'll never notice outside of framerate counter and the advantage is negated completely if you pick up a 1MB L2 cache A64)