386SX wrote:

Hi,
does the Asrock K7Upgrade-600 support Dual channel DDR400? I was thinking to build an high end Barton machine with SSD, and it seems to not being specified this feature. Anyway is this a good board?
Thank

KT600 was single channel only,
if you want dual channel and overall the best performance out of Socket A you want Nforce 2 Ultra 400 (but it doesn't have native sata)

Although the benefit of dual channel is negligible due to the FSB pacing throughput. A well implemented KT600 motherboard will give strong performance comparable to NF2 boards.

http://techreport.com/review/5836/kt600-motherboard-round-up

gdjacobs wrote:

Although the benefit of dual channel is negligible due to the FSB pacing throughput. A well implemented KT600 motherboard will give strong performance comparable to NF2 boards.

http://techreport.com/review/5836/kt600-motherboard-round-up

Thank you both for the answers. This barton machine is going to cost me a lot but is a processor that still give me that "power" feeling. (also on the power usage bill.. 😁)

i dont remember what the general throuput was on my barton, it was a 2600+;
but i do remember that dual channel option in bios did give a considerable boost in games (ut 2k3/2k4) and made no difference on the OS desktop;
also, wasnt the athlon64 a faster 32bit performer than the old athlons?

mrau wrote:

i dont remember what the general throuput was on my barton, it was a 2600+;
but i do remember that dual channel option in bios did give a considerable boost in games (ut 2k3/2k4) and made no difference on the OS desktop;
also, wasnt the athlon64 a faster 32bit performer than the old athlons?

Yeah I only had tha Athlon 64 3500+ for a while back in time I didn't test it much.