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i just recieved a new dell, stats listed below, but i observation of the motherboard leads me to belive the dimms are not in the dual channel dimm slots

thier are four, two white two black, iwas taught that colored are the dual channel slots but my dell manual says never connect 2, and 4 without populating 1 first

the bios tells me its configed as dual channeled-interleave

does interleave mean im not getting my dual channel access or am i over analyzing
 
Its not dual channel memory.

386s and P4 have dual channel memory which means it wont work unless ya have 2 sticks or 4. Does anyone remember working on a 386.

The other chips you can use any number of sticks.

Always install the sticks in order 1, 2, 3, 4.

What ya have is a dual chip processor which will leave the P4 in the dust even with slower speeds.

Os 2000, XP Pro, 2003 work with dual processor chips 9X dosent.

Google memory interleave ya can read about it. I think you will be happy with it off.

The manufacture assembly lines usually build many boards on the same conveyor. P3 and P4 and many socket sizes sometimes they just use the same colored parts for all.
 
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TECHGUNS said:
Its not dual channel memory.

386s and P4 have dual channel memory which means it wont work unless ya have 2 sticks or 4. Does anyone remember working on a 386.

The other chips you can use any number of sticks.

Always install the sticks in order 1, 2, 3, 4.
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hmm or not..

i HAVE 2 sticks(each 512) ddr2 , in slots 1 and 3, the white ones, any non-cocky, dont think they know it alls, havre a decent response?

the borad is dual channel; capable i know this, the sticks may or may notbe , but my undderstanding is thats up to the board with DDR2, and the sticks do not differ

i could be wrong though on that, perhaps why dell has them in the white slots?(1,3)
 
Yes this dual chip fits a socket 775. It took awhile to find out.

Thats a Pentium 4 socket.

And a Pentium 4 a dual channel.

The dual channnel needs a matching pair of sticks the same size.

Since all the sticks are the same size leave on the interleave.

If ya intall more sticks that are not the same size as the first matching pair turn it off or ya will lose some memory capacity.

If ya intall more sticks that are the same size as the first matching pair leave interleave on more performance.

Oh if ya going to upgrade memory find the total that the board specs will work with and divide it by the number of memory slots. Thats the stick size to get.
 
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hmmm

I have a dual-sided pringles chip (sour cream & onion) and it leaves dust on my fingers
 
No matter if your running memory in dual channel or not, you ALWAYS populate dimm slot 1 first! Always.

So to be able to run in dual channel you need to go 1-3 if you only have 2 sicks, then if you buy 2 more sticks you obviously put them in slots 2-4. Try CPU-Z, that tells you if your memory is running in dual channel.
 
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