help me on my motherboard

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i am having intel 915 gav motherboard with 256 ddr ram and pentium 3ghz ht and recently when i visited the intel website for driver updates i found something like dual channel memory modes i cant understand what they mean like that can someone explain me what is dual channel memory mode and will my motherboard support ddr2 and sata2

Ur motherboard doesn't support DDR2 or sata2. It only supports DDR 400Mhz ram & sata1.Dual channel mode is such a mode that if 2 identical ram modules r installed in same type of DIMM sockets (say DIMM0) then the data bandwith would be double(theoritically)for the ram. Say if u have 2 256mb 400Mhz memory modules then u may use those in 800Mhz.Remember dual channel mode only works if two identical ram is installed in dual channel config.u should read this pdf file=>ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/av/C6860002.pdf

dual memory mode simply means that u have two identical ram slots..
the people in digit forum often speak abt da fact that using two 128 rams is better than a single 256 ram....(whatever that means!)
and yes the 915 gv doesn't support ddr2 and sata 2