Dual Channel Ram

[DeevoGold]

I have 16gb Dual Channel Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz. When I go into properties it shows that I have 16gb of ram but does not say anything about it being dual channel. Is there anyway to know if it is recognizing the dual channel? Or since it is recognizing the ram then that means it is using the dual channel..I may have this all wrong but some clarification would be nice.

[Phalonx]

Download CPUZ (link here).  The memory tab will indicate if it is dual channel or not, see screenshot below:

 

[DeevoGold]

Great! Thanks for the help.

[DeevoGold]

This is all the info it is giving me about my ram.

[EmoRarity]

Have you gone through and set the XMP in the BIOS? 

[DeevoGold]

Thanks for replying! this has been bugging me, since I put my new computer together. All I did to my bios was update the bios. I'm not quite sure what XMP is or does. I will go into the bios and check it out. What should I set it to?

[Quaker]

Basically, as long as you put the RAM in the right slots, it will run in dual-channel mode. On motherboards with more than two RAM slots, the proper slots are usually the same colour.

 

BTW - there is no real difference between single-channel, dual-channel, or whatever-channel RAM. It's just packaging - a "dual-channel" kit is just two single channel sticks packaged together.

[Andrew666drew]

this is good ram


 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104169