RAM advice

[lenzz]

Hi.
I want to get some new ram for my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R. I have 4gb of ocuk pc8500 value ram but the damn stuff just won’t run stable and wont operate within specified voltages so I’m going to send it back.

I want to get 4GB (2X dual channel kits) that have been tested with this specific MB. I checked the recommended ram list form gigabyte here

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/MemorySupport/motherboard_memory_ga-p35-ds3r_2.0.pdf

I’m thinking of going for the “OCZ OCZ2N1066SR2GK” and I just want to know a few things before I go ahead and buy it.

If you check the PDF there is a heading called “SS/DS” what does this mean.

And under the “Dual channel Load (Pcs)” some say 2 and others 4. Does this mean that the RAM will only run with one dual channel kit (2 GB) and not with 2 dual channel kits (4 GB).

As you can probably tell from my post I’m a little confused,

 

[Cob]

Single Sided and Double Sided. Ie - It has chips on just one side of the dimm or on both sides of the dimm.

I've no idea about the Dual-channel load thingy. The board will however run in dual-channel providing the amount of memory in channel A is the same as the amount in channel B. So both 2gb and 4gb will run in dual-channel.

 

[lenzz]

Single Sided and Double Sided. Ie - It has chips on just one side of the dimm or on both sides of the dimm.

I've no idea about the Dual-channel load thingy. The board will however run in dual-channel providing the amount of memory in channel A is the same as the amount in channel B. So both 2gb and 4gb will run in dual-channel.

thankyou for the info. and just one more thing. When i install a dual channel kit do i have to make sure that i install the kit in the same colour slots. e.g.
one matched pair in the purple slots and the send matched pair in the green.

 

[Cob]

Yip one pair in the yellow slots and the other pair in the red slots if installing 4 sticks.