Lisi put forth on 4/17/2010 10:04 AM: > Would I be correct in taking this to mean that the memory modules appear to > be incorrectly installed, and that I could improve my memory performance by > moving one of the modules that dual channel functions? And also, if that
No, they are currently properly installed for dual channel operation. > does not give me enough improvement (which it almost certainly won't), I > could add another module in the third channel, which would not necessarily > need to be the same size as the other two? There is no 3rd channel. There are 3 DIMM slots, but slots 2 and 3 are part of the same channel. The nForce2 northbridge chip for some odd reason was designed to support 1 DIMM on channel 0 and 2 DIMMs on channel 1. As long as you have a DIMM installed in slot 1 and a DIMM installed in either or both of slots 2 and 3, you are running in dual channel mode. # of DIMM slots does not equal # of memory bus channels. As an example, the Compaq Proliant 5000 quad Pentium Pro server had 16 DIMM slots but only a single memory "channel". Back then they called it a "bus", which is the proper electrical engineering term. "Channel" didn't come along until much later when vendors started installing multiple memory buses. I guess the marketing folks thought "channel" sounded better than "bus". -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bc9d265.4020...@hardwarefreak.com
