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Name: Dragon306
Date: November 7, 2005 at 10:50:08 Pacific
Subject: dual channel in four RAM sticks??
OS: XP Pro
CPU/Ram: xxxx
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Putting togather my new gaming system, i bought 4 sticks of PC3200 that are dual-channel compatible. can all four of them run in dual-channel togather, in sets of two, or not at all? how would i set this up? the RAM sticks are identicle. how can i set up dual-channel through all four of them? thanx.

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Response Number 1
Name: Zenith
Date: November 7, 2005 at 10:55:19 Pacific
Subject: dual channel in four RAM sticks??
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Hello - do you have a manual for your system board????

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Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll)
Date: November 7, 2005 at 11:36:34 Pacific
Subject: dual channel in four RAM sticks??
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If all 4 are dual-channel RAM sticks, and you only have 4 memory slots on your motherboard, then it doesn't matter which RAM goes into what slot to run in dual channel mode.

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Response Number 3
Name: jam
Date: November 7, 2005 at 12:06:22 Pacific
Subject: dual channel in four RAM sticks??
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...provided all 4 sticks are identical. For example, 4 x 256MB PC3200 CAS2.5

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