Dual Channel RAM - Does it mean i have twice as much?

Legend 69

Legend 69

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Hi again everyone, im going to be buying a PC with '2048MB DDR2 667MHz OCZ Dual Channel RAM' Does the dual channel part mean im getting two 2048MB RAM chips, so in total im getting 4096MB of RAM? Or that im only going to actually be getting only 2048MB of RAM. Also is 2048MB a good size to have or should i be looking for more, particuarally as im buying this particular computer ( http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/pcrange.html?NEL, mine is the 6000) for gaming purpose's.

Please help!
 
No. Dual channel just means that the 2 pieces will work together (2x 1gigs) like one piece of Ram. 2GB is great. 4GB is overkill. If you decide to upgrade to over 4GB you will need a 64BIT OS
 
2 gigs is enough. You'll only be using 2 gigs, Dual Channel means you have two Ram sticks, so you have two pinelines going to the processor instead of one. It's more complicated than that, but that's pretty much it
 
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