Does dual channel mode make a difference in gaming?

I just purchased my second gig stick of OCZ value ram to

finaly complete my super system. I started it up. It dis-

played single channel for my ram. No big deal I thought.

Then I loaded up Battlefield 2 it took almost 3 minutes to

load a map. Ok it says it may take awhile cause it prepar-

es the video for the first time and all that.

After I played a few rounds of Battlefield 2 I decided to reco-

nfigure my ram to dual channel mode because it was lingeri-

ng around the back of my mind that my ram should be set up

correctly.

Loading up 4 different Bf2 maps with 25 players each time,

the load time went from 3 minutes down to 1 minutes and

16 seconds each time consistantly.