The *NEW* Newegg.com lists Socket-754 boards as "dual channel"

[ToeJam13]

A quick trip over to NewEgg.com shows that they completely revamped their website. However, a quick search for "Motherboards-AMD" + "Socket-754" + "PCIe16 *1" showed a whole series of Socket-754 boards that claimed "Dual Channel Supported: Yes".

Unless the world of AMD has suddenly turned upside down, I would think that NewEgg has a slight problem with their mainboard database.

Has anyone else been able to repro this issue?

EDIT: As of 04/27/05, two boards still show this as an issue:
[*]EPoX EP-8NPAJ Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard
[*]ECS NFORCE4-A754 Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Good point. I'll email the webmaster and notify them 🙂

They normally have these type of issues resolved within 24 hours.

 

[ToeJam13]

It seems that most of the Socket-754 boards that claim dual channel support are nForce4 boards. It could be that NewEgg simply made a query against all such boards and configured them as dual channel in their DB.

 

[imported_Kensai]

That's intresting. Having S754 with dual-channel would be pretty cool. Maybe they have some magic or something. 😱

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

No magic, socket 754 = single channel.

It does support dual-channel memory, meaning you can buy a "dual channel kit" and it will work perfectly on a socket 754 board.

 

[ts3433]

Originally posted by: ChineseDemocracyGNR
No magic, socket 754 = single channel.

It does support dual-channel memory, meaning you can buy a "dual channel kit" and it will work perfectly on a socket 754 board.

No such thing as "dual channel memory," per se. Whether the RAM can be run in dual channel or not depends on the memory controller; it's not directly dependent on the DIMMs. Dual channel kits or matched pairs are simply tested beforehand in dual channel to ensure they work.

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

Yes, by "support dual-channel memory" I meant it supports the dual-channel memory kits. I've seen newbies ask if these were supported by their single-channel platforms before.

 

[ToeJam13]

Actually, no.

If that were true, than every mainboard that has at least two DIMM sockets would be labeled as "supports dual-channel memory" since these dual kits are nothing more than two matched modules sold together. This is just not the case. As such, I do not agree with your statement.

What it boils down to is that NewEgg bases their "supports dual-channel memory" tag on the chipset supplied on the mainboard. Until recently, it was fairly easy to figure this out. However, the AMD64 platform has changed things because now its based on CPU type rather than chipset. Since their issue seems mainly limited to nForce4 boards, it seems that they haven't perfected tweaking their back-end scripts yet.