Stupid question

[oxygene]

I heard a lot of strange things about dual chan ram when ti first arrived, a lot of people said it was a tiny boost in performance and not worth worrying about. Its a long time on now and I was wondering what they are like. I have an amd 64 3000 (at 2.43ghz) and I have a single strip of Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200C2PT Platinum CAS2, but atm I have another strip on its way to me, and I was wondering if these can be run dual chan or must they be in the matched pair kits provided?

 

[smids]

Well, if you got the same stick again, chances are it will be fine. Sometimes however, memory controllers are picky and do not like unmatched pairs. TBH, it's probably 75:25 in favour of working. You'll have to memtest (www.memtest.org) each stick individually for a couple of hours first, then try them together in dual channel.

 

[Skeme]

If they are the same versions you will prob get away with it. When i swapped my unmatched pair of 1GB XMS3200C2PT in to my first dual channel board it didn't work. However they were diff versions so it was prob to be expected.