Implications of single-channel?

[Nihilanth99]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (65w Windsor)
Abit KN9 Ultra (bios 1.6)
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (version 2.1)

Having reached my wit's end with this motherboard/memory combination, I'm curious as to what the real world performance difference will be between single-channel and dual-channel memory operation. Long story short, this board [now] only seems to take the modules in slots of differing channels regardless of any and all settings.

I seem to remember dual-channel being a big nothing during the Athlon XP/nForce2 days, but I imagine things could be quite different today.

Thanks

 

[Nihilanth99]

Bump

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

with the bandwidth ddr2 offers, dual channel isn't all that much faster... probably within 2-3% in reeal world cases. haven't actually tried it myself on my AM2 rig

 

[Nihilanth99]

Sounds fair to me. I guess I'll live with it for the time being