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Old 11-11-2007, 12:38 PM
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Actually, as it stands now, you are not running in "dual channel" mode. Normally, the color indicates each channel. In your case yellow being one channel and blue the other. In order to run in dual channel mode you therefore need to have one stick in the blue and one in the yellow or, 2 in the yellow and two in the blue. They should in theory be "matched pairs" or at the very least very close in specs (timings etc).

You can take the Samsung and install them into the remaining two slots and effectively give yourself a "dual channel" setup. Normally it is suggested that all the sticks be of comparable specs although size isn't important. As long as the specs from your OCZ and Samsung are close, you should have no troubles at all.

Again, each channel (same colored slots) need to have matched pairs, Installing a matched pair into one color only while leaving the other color empty will yield "single channel" results. Downloading and running "Everest" will show the differing results between them.

One further note: OCZ uses select Samsung ram, re-labeling it if passes their specs. I use OCZ myself.
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Old 11-12-2007, 05:45 AM
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I am now running with the 2 x 1gb in the yellow slots (closest to the cpu)
and the 2 x 256 mb in the blue slots

thanx for your help Doc greatly appreciated
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Old 04-03-2009, 04:17 AM
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Hi hi I came across your thread accidentally while I was trying to find an answer to my dilemma.

I'm still new to these... computing/hardware/software (let's say all) stuffs and I have a few questions and I wonder if you can help me >.<

So I bought my HP DV5-1102TX but I want to upgrade its RAM to 4GB (stock is only 2GB).

Does a 4GB RAM run better with a 64-bit windows than a 32-bit windows?

As for the Dual Channeling RAM thingy, if I was to install another 2 GB RAM, does it have to be of the same "brand" for the hardware to work efficiently?

Say I used a third party 2GB RAM (kingstone) and it's of a different brand from the stock RAM, will that affect the performance of the laptop?

Last question, does all notebooks have the dual channel feature? xD

Sorry for being this newb~

I'd really appreciate it if you reply >.<
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