Aniky Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Triple channel does only apply to DDR3 modules. tnx for answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forsaken Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 If youd notice when you order ram if its dual channel is comes in pairs and if its triple channel it comes in a set of 3, theres a reason for that. If you take tripple channel and put in 4 sticks of it, your ram is no longer running in tripple channel mode it then becomes SDRAM..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TulsaGeoff Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 No one really answered this correctly. If your memory controller supports dual channel ram and you have two matching ram sticks put them in the same color slots. Filling all ram slots is only an issue if you are going for high overclocks because it is harder on the memory controller. My mother board runs tri channel ddr and I use slots 1,3,5. Only an Intel x58 chipset supports tri channel ram. Any other ddr3 ram is going to be ran in a dual channel configuration (2 or 4 sticks). Basically put the ram in its matching slot colors. You can put it in two different slots but it will run slightly slower in a single channel mode. Its not a big difference anyways. And unless you are going for super high overclocks or running super fast ram ddr2 1066+ or dd3 1866+ it doesnt matter if you fill all the slots or not. If you use 2 different types of memory, all memory will only run as fast as the slowest stick. Yep... I'll be back to pwn you noobs soon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionKnight Posted May 18, 2010 Author Share Posted May 18, 2010 No one really answered this correctly. If your memory controller supports dual channel ram and you have two matching ram sticks put them in the same color slots. Filling all ram slots is only an issue if you are going for high overclocks because it is harder on the memory controller. My mother board runs tri channel ddr and I use slots 1,3,5. Only an Intel x58 chipset supports tri channel ram. Any other ddr3 ram is going to be ran in a dual channel configuration (2 or 4 sticks). Basically put the ram in its matching slot colors. You can put it in two different slots but it will run slightly slower in a single channel mode. Its not a big difference anyways. And unless you are going for super high overclocks or running super fast ram ddr2 1066+ or dd3 1866+ it doesnt matter if you fill all the slots or not. If you use 2 different types of memory, all memory will only run as fast as the slowest stick. Yep... I'll be back to pwn you noobs soon WB =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdkxeon Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 i think i am the only one who konws the rite answer and also who knows the rite questions filling 4 slots doesnt make any difference in performance unless you are using all 4 gigs of the memory which never actualy happens !! 4 dimms of ddr3 will cause the page size to increase on harddrive' 4 gigs means 4 gigs of page file on hard drive, if you are using 2 gigs then 2 gigs of hard drive space is useless !!! but the same is true if you put 1 dimm of 4 gig in one slot. and the real question should be "why is filling channel 1 important before filling channel 2" channel 1 = slot 1 and slot 3 channel 2 = slot 2 and slot 4 for x58 and above channel 1 = slot 1 and slot 4 channel 2 = slot 2 and slot 5 channel 3 = slot 3 and slot 6 it is always advisable to fill channel 1 first because it is closer to the cpu - the closer the memory is to the cpu the lower is the timing path - the better the performance (yes that 1/2 inch of space makes a difference when it comes to 2 and 3 ghz speeds) Nailed it !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krauersaut Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 Thank god we have you. We would probably still puzzle over it otherwise. I'll quickly delete my 4GB pagefile in Linux and will be back from my video conversion which requires sligthy less then 4GB of RAM later. I'm afraid of playing a video game besides because that might actually burn my RAM since I dared to put it on slot 3 and 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdkxeon Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 Thank god we have you. We would probably still puzzle over it otherwise. I'll quickly delete my 4GB pagefile in Linux and will be back from my video conversion which requires sligthy less then 4GB of RAM later. I'm afraid of playing a video game besides because that might actually burn my RAM since I dared to put it on slot 3 and 4. u could have just said that u didnt understand and u need further explaination Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwolf Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 I have 2 slots with 2 gig per slot DD3 @ 667 Mhz dual channel which for this game runs great However theres a new game ( Storm of War ) coming out in Oct, 2010 Were i might get new Ram @1024 Mhz and fill it to 8 gigs with my 1TB HD and dual core I shouldn't have a problem even with the sever being in Russia ..on are severs i run a 50 - 80 ping and on euro severs its 80- 120 ping Long as you keep your computer clean and defrag and have more then 512 mb you shouldn't have problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdkxeon Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 I have 2 slots with 2 gig per slot DD3 @ 667 Mhz dual channel which for this game runs great However theres a new game ( Storm of War ) coming out in Oct, 2010 Were i might get new Ram @1024 Mhz and fill it to 8 gigs with my 1TB HD and dual core I shouldn't have a problem even with the sever being in Russia ..on are severs i run a 50 - 80 ping and on euro severs its 80- 120 ping Long as you keep your computer clean and defrag and have more then 512 mb you shouldn't have problems i think you might be lil off topic there !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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