Dual Channel DDR have sturtural advantages?

[LIVAN]

I have asked a few questions on Dual Channel on these forums last few days. So from what I gather, there is no difference bewtween say a regular PC3200 DDR stick than one that comes in a kit. THe kit is a way for them to make sure you get the matching ram to enable dual channel?

Because people seem to indicate you can run any DDR dual channel as long as the are the same and as long as the board supports it. IS this ture? OR am I off base?

 

[DaveSimmons]

> THe kit is a way for them to make sure you get the matching ram to enable dual channel?

Yes. 2 single sticks are 99.9% as likely to work perfectly together if you buy them together. Once in a thousand buys you might get two sticks that were manufactured differenly but given the same part number. 99.99% likely to work if you aren't bying no-name "generic" ram.

> Because people seem to indicate you can run any DDR dual channel as long as the are the same and as long as the board supports it. IS this ture

Yes.