Question about dual channel

[allanw]

Hi, I bought 2 sticks of Corsair Value Select memory recently, and it works fine in a single-channel (Asus P4S800 for socket 478) mobo.

I'm wondering if the memory will work fine in dual channel mode with a socket 939 motherboard for athlon64 (K8N Neo2 Platinum), or do I need to buy a dual-channel memory kit?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Should work fine, all memory is really single channel, they just sell "matched" single sticks in kits for dual use.

 

[allanw]

Okay, thanks.

 

[Nickel020]

The matched kits are usually guaranteed to work in dual channel. With 2 identical sticks it happens only very very rarely that stability problems occur in dual channel mode.

 

[allanw]

So, what's the chance of my 2 sticks of non-matched working stable in dual channel mode? And if they are unstable, can I just run the 2 sticks in single-channel mode using the mobo's bios settings or something?