K7N420 and Twin Bank and a new graphic card

Hi,
I tried to gain Dual-Channel operation buying two 256MB memory sticks.
So far i can't see any rising in Memory Bandwidth (checked with Sandra and Memtest).
The modules are slithly different as i noticed after a while, despite the same model nr.
Heard that you have to load High Performance defaults in BIOS, but can i
change things in BIOS after i've done that?
Is there any other way to check for twin-bank operation?
I bought a new grahic card to rise system performance.
Still wondering if dual channel would do any good with an extra AGP - card,
or if i should take one of my old 256 modules and put it in the empty slot...
Regards, Alex

Hello,
The performance gain is very small.
Your CPU is 133Mhz FSB DDR = 2100MB/s
Your memory is 133Mhz DDR = 2100MB/s
Running that is DC = support for 4200MB/s
But your CPU can only deliver 2100MB/s.
So there is no difference there but the way the memory controller works is slightly different in DC mode so it is better.
http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php#download
Run that and go to the MEMORY TAB, it should say Dual channel mode.

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