agentRed

Hey guys! got a question for anyone who knows the answer.

For dual channel to work properly, is it necessary that all the sticks in all of the slots to be matching? Like, on my motherboard (Gigabyte DS3 rev. 3.3), there are four slots, which consist of 2 matching colors. Obviously, those are the dual channels. Do channels 0 and 1 have to have matching memory or not?

What I want to know is...could I like...have 1GB DDR2 800(2x512mb) in the first matching slots, and then another set (different brand, same speed, different timings) of 2GB (2x1GB) in the other matching slots? - Would that affect the speed or does each channel function separate from one another?

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