Hi fellas,
got a question that I was doing a bit of research earlier on due to a deal I saw on Slickdeals for a $46 8GB DDR3 pair of RAM.
Currently I've got 4 x 2GB 1333 DDR3 sticks in the Gigabyte H55 1156 motherboard, paired with an OC'ed Core i3. It's all very groovy, works great in dual channel configuration, very stable etc.
Now, seeing as I want to partake of this deal, I'm wondering what would happen if I were to have 2 x 2GB & 2 x 4GB running in dual channel.
My motherboard manual doesn't tell me what would happen, but several Google searches later and I found a thread on Tom's HW quoting from an ASUS manual of a P55 chipset mobo saying:
"You may install varying memory sizes in Channel A and channel B. The system maps the total size of the lower-sized channel to dual-channel configuration. Any excess memory from the higher-sized channel is then mapped for single-channel operation."
The caviats being that I don't have an ASUS board, nor is it a P55 board (H55, although it should be similar enough), how do you read this?
Does it mean that I would be running at 4GB dual channel (total size of the lower-sized channel and 8GB single channel) or 8GB dual channel (total size of the lower-sized channel times two, since it's two different sets of RAM and it'll be using 2 x 2GB from each bank of memory, with a 4GB single channel)?
It's a bit of a pointless question since the difference between worrying about this at all or not is another $46 for another 8GB pair, but it's more curiosity if anything.
I don't have extra RAM to test this out with or I would post my finding here.
got a question that I was doing a bit of research earlier on due to a deal I saw on Slickdeals for a $46 8GB DDR3 pair of RAM.
Currently I've got 4 x 2GB 1333 DDR3 sticks in the Gigabyte H55 1156 motherboard, paired with an OC'ed Core i3. It's all very groovy, works great in dual channel configuration, very stable etc.
Now, seeing as I want to partake of this deal, I'm wondering what would happen if I were to have 2 x 2GB & 2 x 4GB running in dual channel.
My motherboard manual doesn't tell me what would happen, but several Google searches later and I found a thread on Tom's HW quoting from an ASUS manual of a P55 chipset mobo saying:
"You may install varying memory sizes in Channel A and channel B. The system maps the total size of the lower-sized channel to dual-channel configuration. Any excess memory from the higher-sized channel is then mapped for single-channel operation."
The caviats being that I don't have an ASUS board, nor is it a P55 board (H55, although it should be similar enough), how do you read this?
Does it mean that I would be running at 4GB dual channel (total size of the lower-sized channel and 8GB single channel) or 8GB dual channel (total size of the lower-sized channel times two, since it's two different sets of RAM and it'll be using 2 x 2GB from each bank of memory, with a 4GB single channel)?
It's a bit of a pointless question since the difference between worrying about this at all or not is another $46 for another 8GB pair, but it's more curiosity if anything.
I don't have extra RAM to test this out with or I would post my finding here.