Whats the diffence between dual channel or not

[amdwolfman64]

My board is an asus a7n8x rev.2. It has dual channel. I have a stick of 512 ocz in one slot. By the way there's two slots that are close and one about anch away from the ram slots. My friend says i have dual channel and why not use it. But I didn't see difference between performance wise. Any comments?

 

[Fern]

There isn't much diff on an AMD system (only 3-5% performance increase). It's of much greater benefit to an Intel system.

It is claimed that DC is very helpful on AMD platforms with integrated gfx.

Fern

 

[CheesePoofs]

To use dual channel, you need two sticks of ram; one in one of the first two ram slots, and the other in the farther away slot.

IIRC, it brings a decent performance boost to the Athlon XPs, but not much of one to the A64s.

 

[zmaster]

2-3% boost on socket A
10% boost on socket 939