ahreno
22-04-2005 14:53:02
i have a mobo with 3 ram slots... can i dual channel 2 512's and then run an extra 256?
reasoning... I have 512 in my machine now... want to upgrade to 1gb... also getting a minimac this week... I would take the 512 i have and throw it in the mini mac... then get a pair of matched 512's to dual channel... i will then have an extra 256 from the minimac laying around.... might as well throw it in my main pc...
just not sure if the 512 will still act as a dual channel?
CoMpFrEaK
22-04-2005 14:56:44
[quote0d73adb217="ahreno"]i have a mobo with 3 ram slots... can i dual channel 2 512's and then run an extra 256?
reasoning... I have 512 in my machine now... want to upgrade to 1gb... also getting a minimac this week... I would take the 512 i have and throw it in the mini mac... then get a pair of matched 512's to dual channel... i will then have an extra 256 from the minimac laying around.... might as well throw it in my main pc...
just not sure if the 512 will still act as a dual channel?[/quote0d73adb217]
depends on your motherboard, and as alawys using different rams are not suggests as is it can bring in potential issues.
Collateral
22-04-2005 15:54:15
I have a 512 MB and 256 MB ram cards in my motherboard. Seems fine to me, I'm don't know much about computers, but so far I haven't had any trouble. Just upgraded it last week.