Dual-Channel RAM

Category: science

A motherboard technology that allows the CPU to access two sticks of RAM simultaneously.

Dual-channel is the "double-lane road." If you use two sticks of RAM instead of one, the data moves twice as fast to the CPU. It is the cheapest performance upgrade you can make—always use two or four sticks, never just one.

Common Examples

• By using two 8GB sticks in the correct dual-channel slots, we doubled the memory bandwidth, which boosted frame rates in CPU-heavy games.
• Ignoring dual-channel configurations is a common oversight that significantly bottlenecks your overall system performance.