nick5000 Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Hi everyone, I recently purchased an Asus P4C800-E DELUXE motherboard with a 3.2E Pentium 4 processor. I also picked up two sticks of PC-3200C2PT 512MB ram. I put them both into the recommended slots for dual channel, and, when I boot up it says they are running at 400MHz "Dual-Channel, Linear Mode." But, why is it that Windows claims there is 1GB of ram available to Windows? In dual-channel mode, shouldn't it only be 512? I checked the Intel Chipset Platform Configuration Utility, and it also claimed I was running dual channel. Is it correct for windows to be reporting that 1GB of ram is available for use by applications? Thanks, Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandyKid Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Welcome to the forums, nick5000! Dual-channel memory architecture doesn't run like a RAID array. You will see your full 1Gb of memory when using two 512Mb modules. For a direct answer, YES, you're running dual channel & YES, it's running correctly. Please read this explanaition of what dual-channel memory really is and does. PLUR CK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick5000 Posted December 26, 2004 Author Share Posted December 26, 2004 Perfect. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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