Motherboard? Memory Upgrade

[DJ Tucker]

Hi guys, I have a simple question at least i hope it is. With my motherboard you see in my siggy, i was wondering if can stick 3x2GB memory sticks in there as it has 2 orange and 2 yellow dimm sockets?
i thought i would ask before getting a single stick as i dont want to waste money on one stick for my mobo to not accept it, but the problem is that i cant afford 2 sticks at the mo so really would hope that i can put 3 sticks into it.

[InspectahACE]

You can...but you're probably going to lose the dual channel mode and run in single channel..I haven't done something like that since the Pentium 4 days so it could be different now..

[DJ Tucker]

after looking around i have found that my memory can only be brought in a pack of 2 anyway so i would have no choice but to get 2x2gb unless someone is able to find me a single 2gb ocz pc6400 800mhz nvidia sli memory!

[stopthekilling77]

after looking around i have found that my memory can only be brought in a pack of 2 anyway so i would have no choice but to get 2x2gb unless someone is able to find me a single 2gb ocz pc6400 800mhz nvidia sli memory!

FYI you don't need to match sticks, just match speed/voltage

[DJ Tucker]

oh right its just that i thought my motherboard having 2 orange and 2 yellow dimm sockets meant i could put 2 memory sticks in at a time. so your saying that i can put one memory in my motherboard and it will read it as 6gb.

[Major_A]

Are you running a 64 bit Vista install? Otherwise you will see zero gains after 4GB. In your case maybe nothing after 3GB, since you are running SLI.

[DJ Tucker]

running vista 64 bit

[Major_A]

Then you will see the benefit. Keep in mind that more memory usually means less stability and lower overclocks.