My dual channel question

Hi everyone, i am new to this forum and this is my first post. I have, however, been reading posts for a bout a week or so as i have benn trying to find answers to some of my questions.
Here is my spec:
K8T Neo2-FIR pro motherboard
Athlon 64 3800+ CPU (venice core)
512mb kingston ram x 2 (in sockets 1 and 2)
Geforce fx 6600gt graphics card
First of all, i just wanted to say that this motherboard (in my opinion) is FAST!
I can only run my memory in single mode as i now know i don't have the right BIOS ver. I am too scared to flash it manually so i will stick with ver 3.3.
However, i had the chance to swap all my components into another brand new Asrock motherboard. The duel channel work straight from word go. I ran Aquamark 3 and i was getting a score of 25,000. Yet, on the MSI motherboard, in single channel mode i was getting 52,000.
So i swapped back to the K8T Neo2!
The plot thickens ..... a friend of mine also has this board but he doesn't have the venice core and therefore he can run it in dual channel, but, he only gets a score of 48,000 and that's using my components, same ram, graphics etc.
So here's my question:
Is it worth me flashing my bios to 9.2 and will i get better scores in games and better frame rates in games? .... the manual flash seems complicated and risky. I used the live flash to get 3.3a when i first got the board and that worked fine. If only they let you select which ver you wanted to live flash.
Last of all, i wanted to say that some of you have taught me quite a bit about my pc and i may even attempt overclocking (a little) one day. Tiresmoke you deserve credit for your help and work on this forum.

Quote from: Killawife on 19-November-05, 06:48:13
Im sure its the safest but didnt work for me. The winflash works fine as long as you know what you are doing and dont have a windows that does things you dont want it to.
Yabbot Killawife, consider what redfox62 said:
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**snip**the manual flash seems complicated and risky
You still think that's good advice considering red's trepidation? I can understand if you could be there to look over his shoulder and direct, but you're not unfortunately.
You said it yourself:
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The winflash works fine as long as you know what you are doing and dont have a windows that does things you dont want it to.
No offense

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Quote from: SiliconEmbryo on 24-December-05, 17:23:42
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