Performance hit? single channel vs dual

[ozzaman]

As above, it seems my DS4 refuses to work with dual channel ram, so can anybody tell me the performance hit i will be suffering with single channel over dual? Will i notice it in gaming?

 

[ozzaman]

ok sorry for asking this but have you got the memory in the correct slots? 1 and 3? (then 2 and 4) The channels are colour coded

Lol yeah. My DS4 wont boot with any sort of overclock, with two sticks no matter what i do. One stick in any slot is fine, but two sticks in dual it wont boot, and goes into a reset cycle.

So now i run 2gb in single channel next to each other in slots 1/2.

 

[ozzaman]

Ive been reading up on it for the last week or so and the responses to this problem vary.

Some say you should up the MCH voltage in the bios and this helps the overclock stick.

Some people suggest that you have to up the ram voltages, because the DS4 generally reports the voltages higher than they actually are (im not 100% on this though).

Disabling legacy usb in the bios too apparently is supposed to fix this.
These are all problems to do with the boot cycle/ram though, and since i havent come across a solution yet it seems there isnt one.

 

[ozzaman]

Ive got the F11 bios for the DS4. I know how to run in dual, its just that the gigabyte is being weird so it wont run it. Must be a clash with the xms. The big sticky says it prefers C5 over C4 and i have C4 ram.