Dual DDR?

[rburke]

Hello everyone!

I have a question about Dual DDR. I just picked up an ASUS P4C800 and a Pentium 4 2.4C Ghz w/800 Mhz FSB. I would like to use PC3200 DDR RAM, but I'm not sure how it all adds up with the Dual DDR....

My question is if I was to buy 2x 256 MB PC3200, does that mean that it will only use it as 256 MB RAM? or 512 MB?

If anyone can let me know, or send e some links then I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!
Burke

 

[Comtech]

It will use the full 512, sending double the data at whatever the FSB is.

Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[KIDA1973]

You will recieve full usage of both sticks (512 MB) with twice the bandwidth of a "normal" ddr bus. The effective throughput will be up to 6.4 GBytes/sec.

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http://www.motherboards.org/articlesd/motherboard-reviews/1251_2.html

The board supports Dual-Channel memory via its four DIMM slots and can support up to 4GB of DDR400 SDRAM. Dual-channel DDR technology doubles the bandwidth of your system memory and can increase the system performance. System bottlenecks are eliminated with faster architecture and peak bandwidths of up to 6.4GB/s.

Good Luck,
Matthew

Matthew Janes

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