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I think the two close together slots are for dual channel, but im not sure, gonna go back and read the nforce review. 😀
From anand,
"Since the reference board does use the 420 chipset, there are two independent memory banks present. The first is a single 184-pin DDR SDRAM bank and the second is a combination of two 184-pin DDR SDRAM banks. In order for you to take advantage of the two memory controllers a DIMM must be present in the single bank and one DIMM must be present in one of the two remaining slots. Otherwise the motherboard will default to 64-bit operation, effectively making this board a 220-D. "