RAM required for dual channel setup?

[Pluto]

A friend of mine recently purchased an Asus P4C800E-DLX motherboard, and was set to buy 2 pieces of OEM w/ brand name chipset 512mb PC3200 DDR memory for $110 cdn each, but the store told him for dual channel to work he NEEDED to buy the OCZ dual channel kit with CL2 latency, for almost double the price. Is the store full of BS, do you need to have CL2 ram to use dual channel?

How much performance advantage does CL2 really give over plain old CL3 ? Is it really worth the price premium? Not interested in overclocking...

 

[IcePhoenix]

Originally posted by: Pluto
A friend of mine recently purchased an Asus P4C800E-DLX motherboard, and was set to buy 2 pieces of OEM w/ brand name chipset 512mb PC3200 DDR memory for $110 cdn each, but the store told him for dual channel to work he NEEDED to buy the OCZ dual channel kit with CL2 latency, for almost double the price. Is the store full of BS, do you need to have CL2 ram to use dual channel?

How much performance advantage does CL2 really give over plain old CL3 ? Is it really worth the price premium? Not interested in overclocking...

Store is total BS. I am using two chips (same kind, Corsair XMS 2700 Platinum 512 sticks) that are not matched, and it works great. Store is just tryin to make some money.

 

[IcePhoenix]

Originally posted by: Pluto
A friend of mine recently purchased an Asus P4C800E-DLX motherboard, and was set to buy 2 pieces of OEM w/ brand name chipset 512mb PC3200 DDR memory for $110 cdn each, but the store told him for dual channel to work he NEEDED to buy the OCZ dual channel kit with CL2 latency, for almost double the price. Is the store full of BS, do you need to have CL2 ram to use dual channel?

How much performance advantage does CL2 really give over plain old CL3 ? Is it really worth the price premium? Not interested in overclocking...

oops, triple post.

 

[IcePhoenix]

Originally posted by: Pluto
A friend of mine recently purchased an Asus P4C800E-DLX motherboard, and was set to buy 2 pieces of OEM w/ brand name chipset 512mb PC3200 DDR memory for $110 cdn each, but the store told him for dual channel to work he NEEDED to buy the OCZ dual channel kit with CL2 latency, for almost double the price. Is the store full of BS, do you need to have CL2 ram to use dual channel?

How much performance advantage does CL2 really give over plain old CL3 ? Is it really worth the price premium? Not interested in overclocking...

I hate my schools internet.

 

[egale]

Dual channel can be finicky on some boards. If your two oem sticks are the same, they probably will work. The matched pair kits are guaranteed to run in dual channel and the memory is usually of a higher quality.

Will you see much of difference between cas 2 & 3? Not really. There will be a difference in benchmarks but in real world applications, nothing noticeable.

 

[frofan]

How do you set up dual channel on the p4c800-e?