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Originally posted by rubicon
Asus boards running AMD processors support dual-channel memory. This is according to the Asus mobo manual for my A7N8X Deluxe.
My PC2100 Kingston RAM just died (one year old) so I went out and upgraded to PC3200. Two stick of 256 MB to take advantage of the dual-channel. It does seem a little zippier.
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Of course AMD motherboards support dual-channel memory. I figured someone would call me out on this, so I'm not surprised. It just so happens that Intel boards benefit much, much more than AMD boards with dual-channel simply because of the front-side bus differences. AMD's processors (up until the Athlon 64) simply aren't fast enough clock-speed wise to take advantage of dual channel to the extreme. If you enact the dual channel on an Intel board, expect anywhere from a 10%-50% increase in raw speed/power if you know what you're doing. AMD boards can get perhaps a 10% increase MAX. I was just letting him know that Intel boards greatly benefit from dual channel support, much more so than AMD boards.
-Lasereth