What is dual and quad channel?

[Recon97]

Which one is dual or quad channel memory?

 

8x2 16GB Ram

 

OR

 

4x4 16GB Ram

 

[GhostWindGamer]

are you that incompetent 

[ERSCreeper]

are you that incompetent 

....

 

Rather than being an ass, explain it to them...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architecture#Dual-channel_architecture

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architecture#Quadruple-channel_architecture

[GhostWindGamer]

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Rather than being an ass, explain it to them...

It's not rocket science but fine

Dual = 2 

Quad = 4

[Recon97]

are you that incompetent 

Yes I am that incompetent.Do you remember when you were incompetent? because I am going through that stage.The purpose of forums is to help each other rather than notice who is incompetent.

 

And in accordance to your new reply,Thank you.I knew it already but was not sure.

[ERSCreeper]

It's not rocket science but fine

Dual = 2 

Quad = 4

Not every single person understands how a motherboard design linked with RAM channels etc.

[-TesseracT-]

dual channel is running two dimms out of four, or four out of four

quad is running four out of eight, or eight out of eight.

[Oshino Shinobu]

It's not rocket science but fine

Dual = 2 

Quad = 4

That doesn't explain anything. 

 

Having 4 sticks of RAM in a Z97/87 board will run in dual channel, not quad. 

 

People have to start somewhere, so be helpful, not a dick. 

[Guest]

are you that incompetent 

Don't be a dick or you can leave - simple as that.

 

 

Anyway, having more channels for your RAM to operate in means that for every memory clock operation, you have more ram accessible. This means that tasks aren't bottle-necked waiting for either space to become available or for a task to be passed through the RAM to the L2 and L3 cache on the CPU. Most commonly you'll see dual channel on consumer platforms and quad channel on workstation and enterprise grade platforms. 

[H4X3R]

2 = dual

4 = quad

Make sure you have an x79 or x99 system to use quad channel though. mainstream chipsets (z77,z87,z97...) only support dual channel (even with 4 DIMMs)

[-TesseracT-]

Some people on here are not very nice to others. Asking questions you don't know is one of the reasons why this forum exists.

 

It's not really that self-explanatory either. Like Oshino Shinobu said, running four dimms on a 1150 board doesn't mean quad channel operation.

[-TesseracT-]

Well, what's the performance difference of RAM channels? Are the sticks running at double the speed of single channel in dual, or double the speed of dual in quad? How does it affect performance?

With double channel you are getting twice the bandwidth from single, though that does obviously not equate directly to a double in performance for most tasks.

[Recon97]

2 = dual

4 = quad

Make sure you have an x79 or x99 system to use quad channel though. mainstream chipsets (z77,z87,z97...) only support dual channel (even with 4 DIMMs)

I am actually looking at Asus maximus vii formula.It supports 4 DIMM

[Oshino Shinobu]

Well, what's the performance difference of RAM channels? Are the sticks running at double the speed of single channel in dual, or double the speed of dual in quad? How does it affect performance?

The real world performance difference is pretty much unnoticeable in most tasks. Games don't benefit at all really, but more workstation programs will benefits more.