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If the chipset that is used is dual channel, only two slots out of three should be used. If you want 1 GB of memory, two 512 MB memory modules should be used.
CAS has nothing to do with memory bus speed. The accessing time of the RAM relates to speed of the memory bus speed not CAS.
Dual ram would be a speed issue, yep, tho should still run and give a gig of ram (with the right kernel options)...
The ram specs do cause some machines to clock the ram down though... I had 2 sticks of 256 ddr 400 in this box with different timings. Individually they ran at 400, but as a pair they got clocked down to 333... So I did some swapping amongst the boxes to get a match.
I just installed the 256 stick in the #2 slot and checked the bios.
With system performance set to normal,resulting frequency=400MHz.
With set to turbo frequency=automatic?I guess its correct.
Is this how I check it?
My board is a gigabyte with nvidia nforce 2 chipset.
Utilities like cpu-z or everest are good to get the info on the ram and such, but for windows With the dual channel ram motherboards, they usually have two slots the same colour and one a different colour... You could also search for the motherboard model number on the web...
But the cpu-z app will tell you all about the ram anyway. How much, speeds.. A cool utility to have. They need a linux version
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With the dual channel ram motherboards, they usually have two slots the same colour and one a different colour... You could also search for the motherboard model number on the web...
