I have a question about dual channel...

That's right, its all coming back to me now

Sharkfood: Next to Howard, you have got to be one of the most intelligent peeps on here! You need to fill in your profile so we can see where you've gotten all of your knowledge from.

I really agree with nickslick74. I really admire you, Sharkfood, I wish I'd had the same level of knowledge as you. Your posts are always quality ones :grinthumb
It's nice to have you in Techspot!

I have attached a CPU-Z dump. I have returned the CPU to it's original clock, just for this log If I see a performance decrease, I'll return it to 3800+ speeds

It appears to be a DH-E6 revision. Hopefully, it's a good revision.

Thanks guys :wave:

For sticks will reduce stability. At stock it should be fine, but when overclocking it WILL lower the maximum speed. It would be best to use just two 1 GB sticks.

I hope the price comes back down. Not too long ago I got a two gig kit of OCZ Platinum PC-3200 for about $150, now it's $300! Even the PC2-6400 two gig kit I bought in June was just $170. Memory prices have doubled over the last few months.

Thanks for the response.
Anyway, I won't keep this processor too much time. I should change it next year. I want a San Diego 3700+, and I will give this CPU to my father.

And you're right about the RAM. I just bought some months ago, a 512 MB Value select stick, it costed me 36.99 plus shipping, now its near $60?!?!

And I don't want to switch to DDR2 yet. I don't want to change my mobo and my CPU socket. That would be too expensive for me....

Thanks for the kind words guys. I truly appreciate it and I'm honored to hang-out with the really awesome techo-folks here at TechSpot.

Well Wolfram, that's an E6 stepping core, which have been known to have some issues with tighter timings + 4 double-sided sticks @ ddr-400 speeds.

It'll really come down to 1T vs 2T timings, BIOS support and the modules themselves. If you do go 4-sticks and wind up with ddr-333 speed, try moving up the timings to 2T as even the most stalwart E3/E6 stepping cores can usually muster ddr-400 speeds @ 2T/double sided modules.

In all reality though, in games that can use it (EverquestII, BF2, BF2142, etc.etc.), the 1T vs 2T really has little impact though as the extra memory alone makes a huge difference.

Good luck man!

hope you got lots of money then if you have to have vista..

especially if you're into upgrading your PC a lot..

even changing the video card etc, or buying a bigger hard drive will cost you more..

the new license on windows vista states you can only transfer it once. and vista will check at random intervals the system & activation.. and it registers your PC system & hardware. so if you have to reformat, change your drive, or you upgrade your video card etc.. Microsoft say you can only do it once. after that the activation is disabled in vista and you go into a limited usage mode because the hardware in your pc does not match with the hardware of when it was activated.. they say you will have to buy a new copy of Vista everytime you decide to change your hardware..

now that's what you call extortion.

Thanks again Sharkfood. Like I said, probably I won´t run 4 RAM sticks using this CPU, I'll probably get a Sandy, and hopefully, get a better revision.
And I really hope, that I only get single sided sticks. My newest Corsair RAM is single sided Hopefully, Corsair won't use again double sided sticks
Thank you a lot for your valuable input man!!

Yeah, you're right. Maybe I'll continue to use XP, until it gets real necessary to get Vista.
I don't like to say this, but if they'll do what you said, I'm afraid we'll have to use certain methods to bypass that activation :evil:

Hopefully, they'll reconsider