Single/Dual Channel Memory?

blue4ice · 9 Dec 2007 at 17:38

I have two sticks of the memory below on my Gigabyte DS3 board.

From the screen print below from CPU-Z it shows it running in single channel. Is this correct?

I must confess I cant say I fully understnad single/dual channel put see lots of other people on here with their CPu-Z dumps reading dual channel.

Cob · 9 Dec 2007 at 17:40

It probably is correct.

You need the memory to be in the same coloured slots to get dual-channel (either both in the yellow or both in the red slots for the DS3).

blue4ice · 9 Dec 2007 at 21:43

ok thanks. I will pop the side off my case when I get 5 mins. Is there much performance increase between running in single and dual channel?

Cob · 9 Dec 2007 at 23:22

Something like 5%.

But it's a free 5%.

blue4ice · 10 Dec 2007 at 12:06

cool in which case i will see where I have installed the sticks. Its interesting though that in CPU-Z the sticks are read at slots 1 and 2. However i suppose CPU-Z could just sequentially number rather than consider where on the MB the sticks are installed

Cob · 10 Dec 2007 at 18:21

You'll need them in slots 1 and 3 OR slots 2 and 4 for dual-channel.