Quad channel memory

[Alex Sinov]

This may sound a little stupid, but I'm willing to take the risk.:$
I see double, triple and quad channel being marketed. Could be the stupidity of the e-commerce content editors, but here goes:

Is there a difference between 4 dimms of dual channel memory and 4 of quad channel?
My logic says "NO", but I'm not that technical and up to speed with all the technolgies/chipsets out there.

 

[BrightCandle]

In essence there is no difference. All it really means is its been tested to work in such a configuration and what tends to happen is the RAM is matched when bought as a group. Buying 2x dual channel memory boxes despite the same model might mean you get two slightly different revisions of the RAM.

But for all practical purposes its the same stuff.

 

[Don Karnage]

This may sound a little stupid, but I'm willing to take the risk.:$
I see double, triple and quad channel being marketed. Could be the stupidity of the e-commerce content editors, but here goes:

Is there a difference between 4 dimms of dual channel memory and 4 of quad channel?
My logic says "NO", but I'm not that technical and up to speed with all the technolgies/chipsets out there.

No difference at all. Quad channel is just 4 single channel dimms

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[icanhascpu2]

It's nearly as bad as the dickwads in some tech stores that try to add up the Mhz on multicore CPUs. 1 quad core CPU running at 2GHZ? Well golly that must mean its an 8GHZ computer! Market it with those specs! HURRR.

Didnt that annoy anyone else?