Dual Channel?

I had a GA-K8NE board which had this issue. Best I could do was to run the ram at 333 and overclock it up as far as I could. I think the best stable settings I could achieve was DDR384 2-3-3-6 1T. At that setting it overclocked the cpu a fair bit so the performance was probably better than running stock cpu and DDR400.
It's not ideal though. It would post at DDR400, but windows froze up pretty quickly.
I'm not sure if Gigabyte are telling porky pies, because I had an MSI board that didn't have any trouble running the same ram at DDR400.
Single sided dims are like hens teeth, but if you can find any they will run perfectly at DDR400.
Good luck.
 
So would I be OK running non-Dual Channel PC3200 2X1GB with a Gigabyte GA-K8NS mobo?

If yes, then what would be the kind of performance loss?
 
No. it's the motherboard/cpu that can't run dual channel, not the ram it's self.
ie if you brought a 2gb dual channel kit and put it in that mobo it will run single channel, if you was to put it in a skt 939 mobo it would run in dual channel.
I would advise getting a dual channel kit because you are guaranteed a matching pair, so no stabilty/incompatibity issues.
 
KangooVanMan said:
No. it's the motherboard/cpu that can't run dual channel, not the ram it's self.
ie if you brought a 2gb dual channel kit and put it in that mobo it will run single channel, if you was to put it in a skt 939 mobo it would run in dual channel.
I would advise getting a dual channel kit because you are guaranteed a matching pair, so no stabilty/incompatibity issues.
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So just to clarify before I layout the cash:

A 2Gb dual channel kit will work fine in the motherboard, I just won't benefit from the dual channel performance?
 
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