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10-08-2004, 01:40 PM
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| Panzer Division Marduk  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Surrey
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|  A dual channel memory question Hi there, I have one stick of 512mb ram and have just got another 2x 256 sticks of ram. All 3 are of the same type, Mushkin lv 2 pc3200 bh5. Just wondering what configuration i should put them in my mobo, the abit nf7-s?. Also is it possible to run the 2x 256 sticks in dual channel config (with the 512 in the spare slot)? Searched round the net and found conflicting info Thanks for your help |
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10-08-2004, 04:14 PM
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| Yeah, you just want the 512 stick on the slot that's on its own, and the 2x256 in the two slots that are close to each other. Job's a good 'un  .What speed are you running them at BTW? In theory 3 DIMMS at PC3200 is supposed to be hard for a motherboard to do, but if two of them are single sided i guess it works .Rich :¬) www.no2id.net www.saynoto0870.com www.housepricecrash.co.uk Now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we're out of beta we're releasing on time.... |
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10-08-2004, 04:45 PM
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| Originally Posted by Rave Depends on the motherboard
The gigabyte one for example, i belive is certified to use all 4 DIMMs at 400mhz  |
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10-08-2004, 05:34 PM
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| Originally Posted by Agent this is the right way,well for me anyway lol.
It comes up in bios and tests as dual channel. As for the 3 dimms thingy..if i take my 512mb stick out and bench the difference was small.Sometimes the 2x256mb would score higher.The next time it would be higher with all 3 in. Farts are like children.....You always love you're Own.!!! Wise Men learn from Other people's mistake's...Fool's learn from their OWN.!!! Last edited by CrapshoT; 10-08-2004 at 05:37 PM.. |
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10-08-2004, 06:34 PM
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| Originally Posted by Agent There are limitations on the 7NNXP though - if you want to populate all 4 slots then 3 & 4 can only take single sided RAM.
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10-08-2004, 06:55 PM
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| Originally Posted by BUFF Yeah, and its a pants board in general anyway !
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10-08-2004, 07:19 PM
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| Originally Posted by Agent Well, there is that too...
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11-08-2004, 09:49 PM
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| Originally Posted by PanzerKnight
I have a NF7-s V2.0 and if you do a bios update to one of the latest ones, you get some text at the beginning of the POST, right before all the cd drives and floppy and hd dectection it says in big bold white letter "DUAL DDR ENABLED" if you have dual ddr ram NF7-S V2.0, Corsair 768 XMS 3200(512 Dual DDR), AMD Athlon XP 2400+, PowerColour 9600SE 128MB, Audigy 2, PlexWriter Premium (52X Write), Jet7 and a Chieftec Dragon with funky blue cold cathodes |
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11-08-2004, 10:11 PM
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| Originally Posted by hektik There is no such thing as "dual DDR RAM"
Provided the memory is stuck on 2 different memory controllers, it will be in dual chan. mode |
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17-08-2004, 03:59 PM
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| ye but you have to buy em as a pair NF7-S V2.0, Corsair 768 XMS 3200(512 Dual DDR), AMD Athlon XP 2400+, PowerColour 9600SE 128MB, Audigy 2, PlexWriter Premium (52X Write), Jet7 and a Chieftec Dragon with funky blue cold cathodes |
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17-08-2004, 05:23 PM
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| I have been running 512mb twinmos winbond pc3200, 256 ocz gold pc3700, and 256 mushkin lvl1 pc3500 in dual channel, was running perfectly... but now my motherboard is dead har har hahrharharhahrharhrahra Makes me crazy Doo Doo Doo Da Da DA... |
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17-08-2004, 06:53 PM
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| what the hell, i had a stick of 256 corsair and i wanted to get another and i asked aorund to see if it would run dual channel and everyone goes you have to buy them as a pair becuase 1 stick is channel A and the other channel B thats why they work as a pair, coz you normally buy sticks as A and ive you bought 2 seperatly they would conflict. so i bought a pair of www.overclockers.co.uk, well that sux if i knew i didn't have to buy them as a pair for them to run dual channel NF7-S V2.0, Corsair 768 XMS 3200(512 Dual DDR), AMD Athlon XP 2400+, PowerColour 9600SE 128MB, Audigy 2, PlexWriter Premium (52X Write), Jet7 and a Chieftec Dragon with funky blue cold cathodes |
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