Dual Channel Technology

Dual Channel RAM is a motherboard feature that allows increased RAM bandwidth becomes wider.With Dual Channel, then the available bandwidth will be doubled, compared with the installation of a single-chip RAM (doubling the value of architecture).The use of Dual Channel RAM, requires two pieces are identical,and it is being applied to the platformDDRPC3200,PC4200&PC5300. Formerly known as the Dual Channel RDRAM.With dual channel,then the bandwidth that can be provided by DDRPC3200 at 6.4Gb/s, whereas if using a single channel,which is only 3.2Gb/sonly.

The Difference

Dual Channel is a technology on the motherboard chipset, not the RAM.Each of DDR in use can be configured in Dual Channel mode or Single.In the past, DualChannel configuration, requires two pieces of RAM that are identical (both in terms of type,capacity,FSB, to thetypeIC). But at present, there isa know-how called Intel Flex Memory Technology at Intel motherboard platform that allows two types of RAM that are not identical (type should remain identical) to be installed in Dual Channel configuration.