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04-06-2008, 07:25 PM
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| Lucky Amateur   Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Virginia
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| 3 Gigs of RAM???? I saw a whole bunch of laptops today beinga dvertised with 3 gigs of RAM??? What's up with that??? I thought Dual Channel was the ONLY way to go for performance.... How on earth do they do it with 3gigs??? Chipset trickery???
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04-06-2008, 07:51 PM
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| Grab Life By The Balls  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan
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| Re: 3 Gigs of RAM???? Its a new option in the intel chipset. Quote:
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04-06-2008, 08:41 PM
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| Re: 3 Gigs of RAM???? I'm pretty sure I saw it on AMD laptops as well..... HPs with Turion x2s and 7150 onboard video I wonder if anyone has done any testing.... with Vista----the more memory the better..... Interesting----a bit of chip chicanerey to trick memory into partially running Dual Channel But heck----with RAM prices so low-----if you have two banks---and it will support up to 4 gigs.... Why not just go to 4 gigs and have REAL dual channel??? Are they thinking the 3.3 Gig limit for 32Bit??
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04-06-2008, 08:47 PM
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| Re: 3 Gigs of RAM???? If 32bit cant handle the full use of 4gb the offer 3gb option which makes a lot of since.
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04-06-2008, 08:48 PM
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| Re: 3 Gigs of RAM???? Ask ford freak here. http://www.abxzone.com/forums/f52/go...ay-112863.html
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04-07-2008, 06:34 AM
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| Re: 3 Gigs of RAM???? Yeah, the 965 (and all new chipsets after that) Intel chipset can run dual channel with different size memory sticks
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