Acer 5520 Athalon 64x2 ram 4 gig upgrade

onegadget · 01-22-2009, 11:50 AM

I have 2, 2gig strips of identical ram installed now hoping to run 4 gig in dual channel mode and am unsure if my Athalon 64x2 processor supports it. There is nothing telling me in Vista to indicate that I am. Do I have to do any additional setup in bios or ??? Thanks

**grimx133** · 01-22-2009, 06:47 PM

Run cpu-z and look at the memory tab, in the top right corner it will say if it's dual channel. http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

onegadget · 01-23-2009, 10:33 AM

Thanks, thats a cool little program and it tells me pretty well everything. I am surprised that Vista does not supply any insight or help files or anything that I could find on running dual channel ram. Thanks again. PS. It seems that my system does support it as CPU-Z indicates.

**grimx133** · 01-23-2009, 07:31 PM

Good to hear it. Cpu-z is handy, I use it all the time.

01-22-2009, 11:50 AM	#1 (permalink)
onegadget Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Vancouver Posts: 3 OS: Vista Home Prem	Acer 5520 Athalon 64x2 ram 4 gig upgrade I have 2, 2gig strips of identical ram installed now hoping to run 4 gig in dual channel mode and am unsure if my Athalon 64x2 processor supports it. There is nothing telling me in Vista to indicate that I am. Do I have to do any additional setup in bios or ??? Thanks

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grimx133 Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada eh Posts: 3,148 OS: xp mce sp2, xp pro sp2, windows 7 beta My System	Re: Acer 5520 Athalon 64x2 ram 4 gig upgrade Run cpu-z and look at the memory tab, in the top right corner it will say if it's dual channel. http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php __________________

01-23-2009, 10:33 AM	#3 (permalink)
onegadget Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Vancouver Posts: 3 OS: Vista Home Prem	Re: Acer 5520 Athalon 64x2 ram 4 gig upgrade Thanks, thats a cool little program and it tells me pretty well everything. I am surprised that Vista does not supply any insight or help files or anything that I could find on running dual channel ram. Thanks again. PS. It seems that my system does support it as CPU-Z indicates. Last edited by onegadget; 01-23-2009 at 10:38 AM.

01-23-2009, 07:31 PM	#4 (permalink)
grimx133 Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada eh Posts: 3,148 OS: xp mce sp2, xp pro sp2, windows 7 beta My System	Re: Acer 5520 Athalon 64x2 ram 4 gig upgrade Good to hear it. Cpu-z is handy, I use it all the time. __________________