more ram = more mhz?

chickenricesoup

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my question is if i have ddr2 1066mhz.everest shows the memory bus is 533mhz.so in order to get the full 1066 i should have dual channel?what if i add 2 more stix of 1066?will that equal it out to 2132mhz?
 
It's DDR so "Double Data Rate" you usually have to double what the PC tells you. So 533Mhz x2 = 1066Mhz. ;)
 
name='chickenricesoup' said:
my question is if i have ddr2 1066mhz.everest shows the memory bus is 533mhz.so in order to get the full 1066 i should have dual channel?what if i add 2 more stix of 1066?will that equal it out to 2132mhz?

Wow, that's a lot of misconceptions. First: the DDR in DDR2 means Double Data Rate, meaning that the rate it can transfer data is twice its speed. In effect, a bus of 533 is a speed of 1066 mhz.

Second, you can't add the frequency (mhz) of two ram sticks. Think of the mhz as the speed of a car. If you have two cars, you won't get there twice as fast, but you will be able to carry twice as much instead.

Only the capacity of the ram sticks can be added together. That is, two 1 gb sticks will give you 2 gb of ram.

Oh, and dual channel has nothing to do with capacity or mhz. Dual channel means the ram are accessing the memory controller through different channels, thereby allowing them to utilize more bandwidth.
 
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