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I've been running my computer for a little over a year now with a barton 2500 clocked to a 3200(2.2). Recently I realized that I was not in dual channel mode and I just made the change. The computer would crash at startup so I clocked it back down to 2500(1.84) and now it runs fine. My question is... which is more of a performance gain? I have an Asus a7n8x-e deluxe board. Also, if it matters I have a kingmax 3500 ram. Thanks!
It's certainly doesn't hurt performance to run dual channel mode on a socket A system, just don't expect to see any blazing speed difference.
The CPU is the limiting factor & at 200MHz (400FSB), the bandwidth is 3200MB/s...PC3200 running at 200MHz also has a bandwidth of 3200MB/s. Doubling that to 6400MB/s is of little benefit because the CPU becomes the bottleneck
Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz
768MB PC3200
Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit
Gamer Edition
WinME/WinXP Pro
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"Is there any way to verify that the ram is running in dual channel mode?"
It'll say it on the boot screen
Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz
768MB PC3200
Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit
Gamer Edition
WinME/WinXP Pro
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Just sold my A7V8X-X on ebay, next is the 2500+ barton but while I didn't run the memory in dual channel mode when I had it, am sure you can try a few things and see if it helps.
When you overclocked to 2.2GHz, were you @ the CPU's default Vcore or did you raise that a bit. If you raise the Vcore say by 0.05 (0.025 @ a time maybe you'll be stable at startup.
However if you can't get dual channel mode going while overclocked then forget dual channel mode and stick with the most stable overclock settings you can get and go for a higher FSB as opposed to multiplier overclock.
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sabertooth-
what did you get for your board on ebay? I was thinking of upgrading.
So, I should reset the mem stick to a nondual channel and raise the FSB back to 400 and leave it. Currently the best I can do I 180FSB while in dual channel. I think the stock setting was 166FSB.
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Unfortunately I didn't make a kill out of the transaction. It sold for a measly $53 and some odd change......;~(, but if I hadn't done that am sure I'll end up giving it to someone down the road.
"My boot up screen scrolls way to fast to read anything... any other way?"Your post screen should flash for at least a second and that is a more than enough time to catch the message. You can also use a hardware reporting program and it'll tell you your theoretical bandwidth viz dual channel mode setup.
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you can check in the bios settings, or some will allow you to hit the pause button.
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Download cpu-z it will tell you about dual channel.http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php
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Running dual channel gives u higher performance but i doubt you will feel the change after changing from single to dual. At least i dun feel much of a difference.
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