Dual Channel Asymmetric

[matt_wood87]

Hi Guys,

After a lot of googling i'm still unsure of the answer to my question so i thought i would ask here.

I have a Asus P5AD2 premium motherboard and on it i had 2 sticks of geil pc2-5300 512mb ddr2 ram totaling 1gb of system memmory

------------------ 512mb
============== empty

------------------ 512mb
============== empty

i then added one stick of geil pc2-5300 1gb ddr2 ram totaling 2gb of system memmory

------------------ 512mb
------------------ 1gb

------------------ 512mb
============== empty

initially the memmory was running in dual channel mode, now on boot up it displays "Dual Channel Asymmetric", and i'm not entirely sure what this implies, does this mean that the two 512mb sticks are still running in dual channel mode, with the extra 1gb running in single channel mode, or by adding the 1gb is it all running in single channel mode.

any info on this would be much appreciated!

thanks

Matt

 

[Cob]

Dual Channel Asymmetric is a bit of a pointless/misleading term.

It'll run at the same bandwidth as single channel.