Dell Inspiron 6000: THERE IS NO DUAL CHANNEL MEMORY

After much scrutiny, I have concluded the Dual Channel memory support is none-existant for the Dell 6000 i have. Here is my evidence:

1. In the BIOS, it says DUAL for memory channel despite only having one module. This option is not changable even with two sticks inside the belly of his beast.

2. For one memory module (ddr 400), I get about 2800MB effective memory bandwidth, for two modules (ddr 400), I get about 2700MB effective memory bandwidth, with DDR 533 single, I get 3200MB, for Dual, I get 3100.

If you have evidence on the contrary, please show me. From the physical evidence I have gathered from my ordeal with my Dell Inspiron 6000, I conclude that dell has physically disabled or not implemented Dual Channel Memory Controller on the Intel 915M chipset.

 

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