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On the site, it says that that particular motherboard is not capable of dual channel. I chose it because it had 3 memory slots. The motherboard that is capable of dual channel is only compaitble with AMD Athlon/Duron processors.
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- If the mobo doesnt run Dual Channel, odds are its not worth buying
- Intel boards support Dual Channel (in fact they usually have a better implementation of it than AMD boards)
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The highest athlon available there is the 3200XP, and I would think that that is slower than the 64 3400+.
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The opposite actually. The XP3200 is apart of the aging AthlonXP line while the 64 is a part of the Athlon64 series. On the topic of CPUs you'll probably want to get a socket 939 board as (a) there's more performance compared to say the socket754s (b) you dont need to use registered memory as per the socket940s and (c) both the socket754s and socket940s are discontinued for Athlon64s. If you get a Newcastle you wont have to worry about different socket revisions as i think all Newcastles are socket939
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Would it be worth me swithching the mobo, just so I can get 1GB Dual Channel, or should I stay with the current and go down to 1GB?
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It would be worth getting the dual channel config.