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Is there a RAID 0 Equivalent for RAM?



The Next CEO of Stack OverflowWhat's the difference between RAID 1 software mirroring and Fake RAID?Can someone explain RAID-0 in plain English?Lost RAID after bootRAID striping on a desktop machineRAID 1+0 on Windows 7 Professional after installationSoftware RAID 0 under Window 7 on 2 HDD only (including system drive) - is it possibleWindows 10 Storage Spaces Poor SpeedIs there a RAID mode that allows files to be on one physical drive of the array?Creating a “virtual” RAID 0 on top of two drives in Windows?Is this explanation of RAID striping incorrect?










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With hard drives, you can put them in a RAID 0 configuration to split data between drives to increase read and write speed. Is there an equivalent of this for RAM? If I have 16 GB of memory, for instance, can I split it into 2 8GB sections and implement striping across them? Note: I am not talking about using ramdisks at all. I am not trying to treat ram as hard drives but rather to speed it up. I have heard that there is a RAID 1 equivalent for RAM called mirroring, but I have not heard of a RAID 0 equivalent.










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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved_memory

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    You may need to look into benchmarks for this method FYI, SSD's and RAM sticks usually don't benefit from RAID configurations like HDD's do. I'm doubtful that RAM will see any speed up that's worth halving the amount of RAM you have.

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With hard drives, you can put them in a RAID 0 configuration to split data between drives to increase read and write speed. Is there an equivalent of this for RAM? If I have 16 GB of memory, for instance, can I split it into 2 8GB sections and implement striping across them? Note: I am not talking about using ramdisks at all. I am not trying to treat ram as hard drives but rather to speed it up. I have heard that there is a RAID 1 equivalent for RAM called mirroring, but I have not heard of a RAID 0 equivalent.










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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved_memory

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    You may need to look into benchmarks for this method FYI, SSD's and RAM sticks usually don't benefit from RAID configurations like HDD's do. I'm doubtful that RAM will see any speed up that's worth halving the amount of RAM you have.

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With hard drives, you can put them in a RAID 0 configuration to split data between drives to increase read and write speed. Is there an equivalent of this for RAM? If I have 16 GB of memory, for instance, can I split it into 2 8GB sections and implement striping across them? Note: I am not talking about using ramdisks at all. I am not trying to treat ram as hard drives but rather to speed it up. I have heard that there is a RAID 1 equivalent for RAM called mirroring, but I have not heard of a RAID 0 equivalent.










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With hard drives, you can put them in a RAID 0 configuration to split data between drives to increase read and write speed. Is there an equivalent of this for RAM? If I have 16 GB of memory, for instance, can I split it into 2 8GB sections and implement striping across them? Note: I am not talking about using ramdisks at all. I am not trying to treat ram as hard drives but rather to speed it up. I have heard that there is a RAID 1 equivalent for RAM called mirroring, but I have not heard of a RAID 0 equivalent.







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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved_memory

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    You may need to look into benchmarks for this method FYI, SSD's and RAM sticks usually don't benefit from RAID configurations like HDD's do. I'm doubtful that RAM will see any speed up that's worth halving the amount of RAM you have.

    – SupaJord
    Mar 21 at 15:59












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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved_memory

    – oakad
    Mar 21 at 4:10






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    You may need to look into benchmarks for this method FYI, SSD's and RAM sticks usually don't benefit from RAID configurations like HDD's do. I'm doubtful that RAM will see any speed up that's worth halving the amount of RAM you have.

    – SupaJord
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You may need to look into benchmarks for this method FYI, SSD's and RAM sticks usually don't benefit from RAID configurations like HDD's do. I'm doubtful that RAM will see any speed up that's worth halving the amount of RAM you have.

– SupaJord
Mar 21 at 15:59





You may need to look into benchmarks for this method FYI, SSD's and RAM sticks usually don't benefit from RAID configurations like HDD's do. I'm doubtful that RAM will see any speed up that's worth halving the amount of RAM you have.

– SupaJord
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Dual-channel.



Consumer-grade computers have supported this for years now. You don't have to enable it explicitly, but you have to install RAM sticks into the correct slots. Those are usually color coded, but there's no standard for this: some manufacturers mark slots on the same channel with the same color (so for dual-channel you have to use different colored slots), some use same color for slots that will enable dual-channel. Long story short, check with the manual.



Server-grade motherboards can support triple-channel or even quad-channel if the CPU can support it too. (see the comment by J...)






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    The CPU must also support n-channel RAM to use it. Some motherboards which support quad-channel, for example, can also accomodate processor SKUs which do not. An i7-7740X in an X299 mobo is an example where the board supports quad channel but the CPU only dual.

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    They're up to 6 channels now on the Scalable Xeon, 8 on EPYC, and up to 32 on Power9

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It's called interleaving. Simple implementations use two banks of RAM (two separate RAM sticks) but I've seen motherboards with up to four banks interleaved.



Like Raid 0, it exploits the fact that the CPU is often much faster than RAM and that there are lots of instances where you are basically streaming data to and from RAM. The memory controller allows the CPU to initiate the next write without waiting for the current write to complete.



For reads it works a bit like DMA where the memory controller will be told to prefetch the next values from RAM before the current data read is complete.






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  • Note that this is not something that you normally can just enable. If and when you use motherboards that support this feature you typically must install RAM of the same size and type in specific paired slots.

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    @kloddant Neither RAID-0 (striping), nor multi-channel, nor interleaving decrease amount of available memory, because there is no redundancy (unlike in higher RAIDs).

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    This is very low-level and must be implemented directly on RAM modules, right?

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    Not RAM modules. Typically these systems use standard RAM available at the time. What's needed is support from the motherboard and depending on the architecture the CPU (older systems with external memory controllers used to use generic CPUs but a lot of modern systems have integrated the memory controller)

    – slebetman
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    @kloddant: No, you still have the total amount of RAM. The hardware just addresses them differently from what the CPU thinks of as memory. For example, the first RAM stick will hold all even addressed data: 0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00003284 and another stick will hold all odd addressed data: 0x00000001, 0x00000003, 0x00003285 etc.

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Yes, there's indeed an equivalent. But generally you just need to follow the instructions for your motherboard when adding RAM, and the setup will be automatic.



Technically this depends on your CPU, but in practice all CPU's that fit in the socket of your motherboard will use the same interface to RAM.






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    As the other answers have covered, this has already been available for over a decade.



    The Core i7-920 was launched in Q4 2008 and supported tri-channel memory. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/37148/intel-core-i7-940-processor-8m-cache-2-93-ghz-4-80-gt-s-intel-qpi.html



    What the other answers do not cover is that 99% of people will not notice a difference. The biggest advantage for the average user is that dual-channel (or better) memory configurations help noticeably in gaming performance when using an:



    • integrated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_2Z208nDGE

    • dedicated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5wA7EFwpo


    If you look up specs for LGA 775 motherboards then you will find dual-channel support going back even further such as https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4RE8205361



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      Dual-channel.



      Consumer-grade computers have supported this for years now. You don't have to enable it explicitly, but you have to install RAM sticks into the correct slots. Those are usually color coded, but there's no standard for this: some manufacturers mark slots on the same channel with the same color (so for dual-channel you have to use different colored slots), some use same color for slots that will enable dual-channel. Long story short, check with the manual.



      Server-grade motherboards can support triple-channel or even quad-channel if the CPU can support it too. (see the comment by J...)






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        The CPU must also support n-channel RAM to use it. Some motherboards which support quad-channel, for example, can also accomodate processor SKUs which do not. An i7-7740X in an X299 mobo is an example where the board supports quad channel but the CPU only dual.

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      Dual-channel.



      Consumer-grade computers have supported this for years now. You don't have to enable it explicitly, but you have to install RAM sticks into the correct slots. Those are usually color coded, but there's no standard for this: some manufacturers mark slots on the same channel with the same color (so for dual-channel you have to use different colored slots), some use same color for slots that will enable dual-channel. Long story short, check with the manual.



      Server-grade motherboards can support triple-channel or even quad-channel if the CPU can support it too. (see the comment by J...)






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        The CPU must also support n-channel RAM to use it. Some motherboards which support quad-channel, for example, can also accomodate processor SKUs which do not. An i7-7740X in an X299 mobo is an example where the board supports quad channel but the CPU only dual.

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      Dual-channel.



      Consumer-grade computers have supported this for years now. You don't have to enable it explicitly, but you have to install RAM sticks into the correct slots. Those are usually color coded, but there's no standard for this: some manufacturers mark slots on the same channel with the same color (so for dual-channel you have to use different colored slots), some use same color for slots that will enable dual-channel. Long story short, check with the manual.



      Server-grade motherboards can support triple-channel or even quad-channel if the CPU can support it too. (see the comment by J...)






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      Dual-channel.



      Consumer-grade computers have supported this for years now. You don't have to enable it explicitly, but you have to install RAM sticks into the correct slots. Those are usually color coded, but there's no standard for this: some manufacturers mark slots on the same channel with the same color (so for dual-channel you have to use different colored slots), some use same color for slots that will enable dual-channel. Long story short, check with the manual.



      Server-grade motherboards can support triple-channel or even quad-channel if the CPU can support it too. (see the comment by J...)







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        The CPU must also support n-channel RAM to use it. Some motherboards which support quad-channel, for example, can also accomodate processor SKUs which do not. An i7-7740X in an X299 mobo is an example where the board supports quad channel but the CPU only dual.

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      The CPU must also support n-channel RAM to use it. Some motherboards which support quad-channel, for example, can also accomodate processor SKUs which do not. An i7-7740X in an X299 mobo is an example where the board supports quad channel but the CPU only dual.

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      They're up to 6 channels now on the Scalable Xeon, 8 on EPYC, and up to 32 on Power9

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      It's called interleaving. Simple implementations use two banks of RAM (two separate RAM sticks) but I've seen motherboards with up to four banks interleaved.



      Like Raid 0, it exploits the fact that the CPU is often much faster than RAM and that there are lots of instances where you are basically streaming data to and from RAM. The memory controller allows the CPU to initiate the next write without waiting for the current write to complete.



      For reads it works a bit like DMA where the memory controller will be told to prefetch the next values from RAM before the current data read is complete.






      share|improve this answer























      • Note that this is not something that you normally can just enable. If and when you use motherboards that support this feature you typically must install RAM of the same size and type in specific paired slots.

        – slebetman
        Mar 21 at 9:43






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        @kloddant Neither RAID-0 (striping), nor multi-channel, nor interleaving decrease amount of available memory, because there is no redundancy (unlike in higher RAIDs).

        – gronostaj
        Mar 21 at 14:50






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        This is very low-level and must be implemented directly on RAM modules, right?

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        Not RAM modules. Typically these systems use standard RAM available at the time. What's needed is support from the motherboard and depending on the architecture the CPU (older systems with external memory controllers used to use generic CPUs but a lot of modern systems have integrated the memory controller)

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        @kloddant: No, you still have the total amount of RAM. The hardware just addresses them differently from what the CPU thinks of as memory. For example, the first RAM stick will hold all even addressed data: 0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00003284 and another stick will hold all odd addressed data: 0x00000001, 0x00000003, 0x00003285 etc.

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      It's called interleaving. Simple implementations use two banks of RAM (two separate RAM sticks) but I've seen motherboards with up to four banks interleaved.



      Like Raid 0, it exploits the fact that the CPU is often much faster than RAM and that there are lots of instances where you are basically streaming data to and from RAM. The memory controller allows the CPU to initiate the next write without waiting for the current write to complete.



      For reads it works a bit like DMA where the memory controller will be told to prefetch the next values from RAM before the current data read is complete.






      share|improve this answer























      • Note that this is not something that you normally can just enable. If and when you use motherboards that support this feature you typically must install RAM of the same size and type in specific paired slots.

        – slebetman
        Mar 21 at 9:43






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        @kloddant Neither RAID-0 (striping), nor multi-channel, nor interleaving decrease amount of available memory, because there is no redundancy (unlike in higher RAIDs).

        – gronostaj
        Mar 21 at 14:50






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        This is very low-level and must be implemented directly on RAM modules, right?

        – gronostaj
        Mar 21 at 14:51






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        Not RAM modules. Typically these systems use standard RAM available at the time. What's needed is support from the motherboard and depending on the architecture the CPU (older systems with external memory controllers used to use generic CPUs but a lot of modern systems have integrated the memory controller)

        – slebetman
        Mar 22 at 2:57






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        @kloddant: No, you still have the total amount of RAM. The hardware just addresses them differently from what the CPU thinks of as memory. For example, the first RAM stick will hold all even addressed data: 0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00003284 and another stick will hold all odd addressed data: 0x00000001, 0x00000003, 0x00003285 etc.

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      It's called interleaving. Simple implementations use two banks of RAM (two separate RAM sticks) but I've seen motherboards with up to four banks interleaved.



      Like Raid 0, it exploits the fact that the CPU is often much faster than RAM and that there are lots of instances where you are basically streaming data to and from RAM. The memory controller allows the CPU to initiate the next write without waiting for the current write to complete.



      For reads it works a bit like DMA where the memory controller will be told to prefetch the next values from RAM before the current data read is complete.






      share|improve this answer













      It's called interleaving. Simple implementations use two banks of RAM (two separate RAM sticks) but I've seen motherboards with up to four banks interleaved.



      Like Raid 0, it exploits the fact that the CPU is often much faster than RAM and that there are lots of instances where you are basically streaming data to and from RAM. The memory controller allows the CPU to initiate the next write without waiting for the current write to complete.



      For reads it works a bit like DMA where the memory controller will be told to prefetch the next values from RAM before the current data read is complete.







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      • Note that this is not something that you normally can just enable. If and when you use motherboards that support this feature you typically must install RAM of the same size and type in specific paired slots.

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        @kloddant Neither RAID-0 (striping), nor multi-channel, nor interleaving decrease amount of available memory, because there is no redundancy (unlike in higher RAIDs).

        – gronostaj
        Mar 21 at 14:50






      • 1





        This is very low-level and must be implemented directly on RAM modules, right?

        – gronostaj
        Mar 21 at 14:51






      • 2





        Not RAM modules. Typically these systems use standard RAM available at the time. What's needed is support from the motherboard and depending on the architecture the CPU (older systems with external memory controllers used to use generic CPUs but a lot of modern systems have integrated the memory controller)

        – slebetman
        Mar 22 at 2:57






      • 2





        @kloddant: No, you still have the total amount of RAM. The hardware just addresses them differently from what the CPU thinks of as memory. For example, the first RAM stick will hold all even addressed data: 0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00003284 and another stick will hold all odd addressed data: 0x00000001, 0x00000003, 0x00003285 etc.

        – slebetman
        Mar 22 at 3:00

















      • Note that this is not something that you normally can just enable. If and when you use motherboards that support this feature you typically must install RAM of the same size and type in specific paired slots.

        – slebetman
        Mar 21 at 9:43






      • 1





        @kloddant Neither RAID-0 (striping), nor multi-channel, nor interleaving decrease amount of available memory, because there is no redundancy (unlike in higher RAIDs).

        – gronostaj
        Mar 21 at 14:50






      • 1





        This is very low-level and must be implemented directly on RAM modules, right?

        – gronostaj
        Mar 21 at 14:51






      • 2





        Not RAM modules. Typically these systems use standard RAM available at the time. What's needed is support from the motherboard and depending on the architecture the CPU (older systems with external memory controllers used to use generic CPUs but a lot of modern systems have integrated the memory controller)

        – slebetman
        Mar 22 at 2:57






      • 2





        @kloddant: No, you still have the total amount of RAM. The hardware just addresses them differently from what the CPU thinks of as memory. For example, the first RAM stick will hold all even addressed data: 0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00003284 and another stick will hold all odd addressed data: 0x00000001, 0x00000003, 0x00003285 etc.

        – slebetman
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      Note that this is not something that you normally can just enable. If and when you use motherboards that support this feature you typically must install RAM of the same size and type in specific paired slots.

      – slebetman
      Mar 21 at 9:43





      Note that this is not something that you normally can just enable. If and when you use motherboards that support this feature you typically must install RAM of the same size and type in specific paired slots.

      – slebetman
      Mar 21 at 9:43




      1




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      @kloddant Neither RAID-0 (striping), nor multi-channel, nor interleaving decrease amount of available memory, because there is no redundancy (unlike in higher RAIDs).

      – gronostaj
      Mar 21 at 14:50





      @kloddant Neither RAID-0 (striping), nor multi-channel, nor interleaving decrease amount of available memory, because there is no redundancy (unlike in higher RAIDs).

      – gronostaj
      Mar 21 at 14:50




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      This is very low-level and must be implemented directly on RAM modules, right?

      – gronostaj
      Mar 21 at 14:51





      This is very low-level and must be implemented directly on RAM modules, right?

      – gronostaj
      Mar 21 at 14:51




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      Not RAM modules. Typically these systems use standard RAM available at the time. What's needed is support from the motherboard and depending on the architecture the CPU (older systems with external memory controllers used to use generic CPUs but a lot of modern systems have integrated the memory controller)

      – slebetman
      Mar 22 at 2:57





      Not RAM modules. Typically these systems use standard RAM available at the time. What's needed is support from the motherboard and depending on the architecture the CPU (older systems with external memory controllers used to use generic CPUs but a lot of modern systems have integrated the memory controller)

      – slebetman
      Mar 22 at 2:57




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      @kloddant: No, you still have the total amount of RAM. The hardware just addresses them differently from what the CPU thinks of as memory. For example, the first RAM stick will hold all even addressed data: 0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00003284 and another stick will hold all odd addressed data: 0x00000001, 0x00000003, 0x00003285 etc.

      – slebetman
      Mar 22 at 3:00





      @kloddant: No, you still have the total amount of RAM. The hardware just addresses them differently from what the CPU thinks of as memory. For example, the first RAM stick will hold all even addressed data: 0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00003284 and another stick will hold all odd addressed data: 0x00000001, 0x00000003, 0x00003285 etc.

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      Yes, there's indeed an equivalent. But generally you just need to follow the instructions for your motherboard when adding RAM, and the setup will be automatic.



      Technically this depends on your CPU, but in practice all CPU's that fit in the socket of your motherboard will use the same interface to RAM.






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        Yes, there's indeed an equivalent. But generally you just need to follow the instructions for your motherboard when adding RAM, and the setup will be automatic.



        Technically this depends on your CPU, but in practice all CPU's that fit in the socket of your motherboard will use the same interface to RAM.






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          Yes, there's indeed an equivalent. But generally you just need to follow the instructions for your motherboard when adding RAM, and the setup will be automatic.



          Technically this depends on your CPU, but in practice all CPU's that fit in the socket of your motherboard will use the same interface to RAM.






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          Yes, there's indeed an equivalent. But generally you just need to follow the instructions for your motherboard when adding RAM, and the setup will be automatic.



          Technically this depends on your CPU, but in practice all CPU's that fit in the socket of your motherboard will use the same interface to RAM.







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              As the other answers have covered, this has already been available for over a decade.



              The Core i7-920 was launched in Q4 2008 and supported tri-channel memory. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/37148/intel-core-i7-940-processor-8m-cache-2-93-ghz-4-80-gt-s-intel-qpi.html



              What the other answers do not cover is that 99% of people will not notice a difference. The biggest advantage for the average user is that dual-channel (or better) memory configurations help noticeably in gaming performance when using an:



              • integrated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_2Z208nDGE

              • dedicated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5wA7EFwpo


              If you look up specs for LGA 775 motherboards then you will find dual-channel support going back even further such as https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4RE8205361



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                As the other answers have covered, this has already been available for over a decade.



                The Core i7-920 was launched in Q4 2008 and supported tri-channel memory. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/37148/intel-core-i7-940-processor-8m-cache-2-93-ghz-4-80-gt-s-intel-qpi.html



                What the other answers do not cover is that 99% of people will not notice a difference. The biggest advantage for the average user is that dual-channel (or better) memory configurations help noticeably in gaming performance when using an:



                • integrated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_2Z208nDGE

                • dedicated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5wA7EFwpo


                If you look up specs for LGA 775 motherboards then you will find dual-channel support going back even further such as https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4RE8205361



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                  5







                  As the other answers have covered, this has already been available for over a decade.



                  The Core i7-920 was launched in Q4 2008 and supported tri-channel memory. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/37148/intel-core-i7-940-processor-8m-cache-2-93-ghz-4-80-gt-s-intel-qpi.html



                  What the other answers do not cover is that 99% of people will not notice a difference. The biggest advantage for the average user is that dual-channel (or better) memory configurations help noticeably in gaming performance when using an:



                  • integrated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_2Z208nDGE

                  • dedicated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5wA7EFwpo


                  If you look up specs for LGA 775 motherboards then you will find dual-channel support going back even further such as https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4RE8205361



                  enter image description here






                  share|improve this answer















                  As the other answers have covered, this has already been available for over a decade.



                  The Core i7-920 was launched in Q4 2008 and supported tri-channel memory. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/37148/intel-core-i7-940-processor-8m-cache-2-93-ghz-4-80-gt-s-intel-qpi.html



                  What the other answers do not cover is that 99% of people will not notice a difference. The biggest advantage for the average user is that dual-channel (or better) memory configurations help noticeably in gaming performance when using an:



                  • integrated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_2Z208nDGE

                  • dedicated GPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5wA7EFwpo


                  If you look up specs for LGA 775 motherboards then you will find dual-channel support going back even further such as https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4RE8205361



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