Trip channel memory on a duel channel motherboard.

[Dovin]

In about 2 months or so i'm going to upgrade my computer with a Asus Sabertooth P67 and a 2500k thats going to be cooled by a NH-D14 so i need some low profile memory. I really want some Mushkin ram since they are supposedly very good and very cool. I live in Norway and i could only find one place that sells Mushkin ram, i got my eye on the Redline PC3-12800 3x4GB, but that is "Engineered for triple-channel architecture" does that mean that it would work bad on a dual channel motherboard? And can you use 3 memory sticks with a dual channel memory or will it only pick up sets (two and two sticks) of memory?

 

[hmmblah]

You will want to use them in sets of two to get dual channel mode. Those sticks would work without issue in a dual channel motherboard, but you would only want to use two of the sticks at a time.

 

[kilobravo]

I have switched one of my rigs from x58 to z68,and using two of the three ramsticks.Running as double-channel on the z68 whitout any problems.If you want to overclock,its recommended to use only two ramsticks,for having a stable system .