Single Stick of Ram in Dual Channel?

It'll work, but you'll get lower RAM bandwidth, meaning lower performance. Bear in mind that dual channel works best with matched DIMM's, though, if you plan to add more later.
 
The Dual channel thing matters more in Intel platforms that are memory bandwidth hungry; dual channel isn't quite as important in AMD platforms (for example, dual channel nforce2 compared with a single channel Via KT400A based board and they both performed the same).

You can use a single stick of RAM and run in single channel mode.

To clarify, there's no such thing as dual channel memory.
 
BillLeeLee said:
The Dual channel thing matters more in Intel platforms that are memory bandwidth hungry; dual channel isn't quite as important in AMD platforms (for example, dual channel nforce2 compared with a single channel Via KT400A based board and they both performed the same).

You can use a single stick of RAM and run in single channel mode.

To clarify, there's no such thing as dual channel memory.
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That's not the reason- it's simply because the CPU can't use dual channel. It has a 64-bit wide memory bus, where a dual channel bus would have to be at least 128-bit. I don't know why nvidia decided to make nforce 2 with dual-channel capabilities, as they are utterly useless.
 
Thanks for clarifying. Nvidia probably did the dual channel thing for marketability reasons, kind of like ATA/133.

However, The Dominion, which CPU are you using by the way?
 
M4d-K10wN said:
Money well wasted.
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How do u figure? You can grab a 3500+ for something between 400-500 bucks. They got dual channel support and im pretty sure you'll be able to OC it to the 3800+ capabilities
 
isn't dual channel controller based not processor based. If the memory controller supports it, shouldn't be a problem, unless, like the opteron, it's an on die controller, right?
 
DemonDiablo said:
How do u figure? You can grab a 3500+ for something between 400-500 bucks. They got dual channel support and im pretty sure you'll be able to OC it to the 3800+ capabilities
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That's why I said well wasted.
defakto said:
isn't dual channel controller based not processor based. If the memory controller supports it, shouldn't be a problem, unless, like the opteron, it's an on die controller, right?
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Traidtionally, the memory controller was on the chipset (such as P4 or K7). However, all K8 chips (this includes all s754, s940 and s939 chips such as Atholon64, Opteron, etc)... anyway, all K8's have an on-die memory controller. While a s754 A64 potentially, has a bus wide enough to let it use a dual channel array, the memory controller is a 64-bit one. You would have to put another memory controller there, with something to coordinate the two, hence more pins are needed. Or you could replace the 64-bit controller with a 128-bit one, but you still need more pins.
 
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