Sandy Bridge - No Tripple Channel RAM?

stoofa · 12 Jan 2011 at 11:04

I'm just looking around at the Sandy Bridge motherboards.
I don't seem to be able to find one that supports tripple-channel DDR3.
Is this right?
Do the P67 & H67 chipsets only support dual-channel?

It's just if I was to go in that direction I'd want to use all of my existing RAM (6x 2GB in Tripple Channel).

cmndr_andi · 12 Jan 2011 at 11:14

stoofa said:
Do the P67 & H67 chipsets only support dual-channel?

That's correct.

stoofa said:
It's just if I was to go in that direction I'd want to use all of my existing RAM (6x 2GB in Tripple Channel).

With the p67 boards only having up to four RAM slots then you would only be able to install 8GB.

If you are going down this road you may want to consider investing in some high density RAM like this (maybe two sets) and selling on your 6x2GB set.

iamtheoneneo · 12 Jan 2011 at 11:14

there is new cpus coming out at the end of the year that are the high end ones with triple channel.
the current sandy bridge processors are mid range for intel, you will have to wait a bit if you want to use your current ram.

stoofa · 12 Jan 2011 at 12:32

OK guys - thanks for that.
I had my fingers crossed there might be a Sandy Bridge CPU released on the S1366 format - but somehow I doubt it.

I'll wait to see the tripple-channel versions.

TrojanWhore · 12 Jan 2011 at 15:25

iamtheoneneo said:
there is new cpus coming out at the end of the year that are the high end ones with triple channel.
the current sandy bridge processors are mid range for intel, you will have to wait a bit if you want to use your current ram.

I heard the new Sandy Bridge EX (socket 2011, expected q3), was gonna be quad channel

NathWraith · 12 Jan 2011 at 15:41

stoofa said:
I'm just looking around at the Sandy Bridge motherboards.
I don't seem to be able to find one that supports tripple-channel DDR3.
Is this right?
Do the P67 & H67 chipsets only support dual-channel?

It's just if I was to go in that direction I'd want to use all of my existing RAM (6x 2GB in Tripple Channel).

Aye, it is the case. Dual channel only for sandy bridge. If it had triple channel, what incentive would there be to go X58? Other than 6 core CPUs?

A clever marketing technique by Intel to preserve their existing enthusiast platform.