Recent content by jominor

Very perceptive. I'm a software developer, and used by a heavy upgrader/overclocker. However, the various servers I built stabilized around 6 years ago. Since then, I've "lost focus" on the hardware side. Very peripheral reading on some of the systems and just missed dual-channel. The last...

So are there any circumstances when 4 2gig DIMMS would show up as 4 gigs on a dual-channel? Does the increase in bandwidth come at the expense of total memory?

There is something about dual-channel I don't quite get. If I have a dual-channel board like the MSI P55-GD80 with 4 slots and I have say 4 2gb dimms, how much memory is visible to the machine running a 64bit OS? 4? 8? Other? If I want to run 8 gig on such a motherboard, can this be done...