Phenom II ganged/unganged modes

[Obsoleet]

Is this dual and single channel? Setting up my first Phenom II rig. Is there anything else I should know about 890GX/PII rigs? Specifically the RAM placement and bios setup. Thanks

955BE
MSI 890GX
4GB Corsair DDR3 (2x2GB)
onboard video

 

[richierich1212]

Yeah it can run both. Run dual channel, and unganged for optimal performance.

 

[veri745]

Ganged is still technically dual channel. It just means the two channels (2x 64bits) are acting as one.

Unganged should get you slightly better performance on a quadcore.

Single channel would be if you were only running one DIMM, or if you had the DIMMs both in the same channel.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Both ganged and unganged are dual-channel modes. In Ganged mode, both 64-bit memory channels act together, as one single 128-bit channel. In unganged mode, both 64-bit memory channels act seperately. Unganged is probably going to be faster for multi-threaded apps running on a quad-core. Ganged is probably faster for single-threaded apps.