Just a hardware guru type question about memory!

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 20:11:14 UTC 2007


On 7/20/07, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have 2x1GB memory sticks that would be dual channel and I only
> insert one stick will it be 1GB of (obviously) single channel memory?
>
> Just curious.

It's dual channel only if the motherboard chipset/architecture
supports it and only if the memory are in matched pairs; i.e same size
and speeds; otherwise it's single channel operation or failure (no
boot or not all memory is recognized).

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