Duel or single Channel

[lou61166]

Question right now i have 2 gb of g-skill ram installed on a single channel,would be better to move 1 block of ram to a duel setup.

 

[Cogman]

There is no reason not to do a dual channel setup (are you saying you have 2 1gb sticks of ram?) I don't know how much performance will change (probably not noticeable) but there should be some difference.

 

[lou61166]

Originally posted by: Cogman
There is no reason not to do a dual channel setup (are you saying you have 2 1gb sticks of ram?) I don't know how much performance will change (probably not noticeable) but there should be some difference.

Thanks,yes i have 2, 1gb sticks.

 

[DSF]

As Cogman said, there's no reason not to run it in dual-channel mode. How come you installed it single channel?

 

[lou61166]

Originally posted by: DSF
As Cogman said, there's no reason not to run it in dual-channel mode. How come you installed it single channel?

When i built the system i, just paired them up,don't know why,i just changed to duel.

 

[lou61166]

after changing to a duel channel it has improved my memory,as you can see in these pics

http://img.photobucket.com/alb.../lou61166/cachemem.png

http://img.photobucket.com/alb...u61166/duelchannel.png

 

[taltamir]

Looking at the pictures, I see that you were overclocking it before (DDR2-1000, 12:10 ratio), and when you switched to dual chanel the OC was lost and went to the defaults (DDR2-800 1:1). You are still OCing the processor by 27%, but the RAM is now not OCed, However the dual chanel benefit is so great, that it is STILL faster.

Actually how could it still be OCing the processor but loose the ram OC? did you do it manually?