Dr Nick

Does it have to be fitted in pairs?

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Nope.

ChrisB

Depends on the mobo. IIRC, the NVidia NForce mobo uses pairs of DDR. 95% of DDR mobo's will be happy with singles though.

I think! Maybe!

DominicA

ChrisB is correct....

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

The Original N-force series of boards came in two varieties. The 220 series had a single memory controller, like other chipset manufacturers, the 420 series had 2 memory controllers, controlling 2 separate banks of RAM. Even with this setup, you could still use just one DIMM and only a single memory controller would fire up quite happily. The performance difference between using the single channel and dual channel was pitiful too

Cheers,

Nick

ChrisB

Erm, okay, pass some more straws for me to grasp at

Doesn't the new E7500 chipset use DDR in pairs?

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

bleh pedantic, i knew some smart *** would say that, anyway its more like 99% of boards that will take a single DIMM

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

The E7500 series does have to be populated in pairs I think, but it really isn't a consumer-class chipset So yes, you are right

Cheers,

Nick

ChrisB

Phew.

He heh

True, no AGP on the E7500 I've seen.