On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:31 PM Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > dmccunney composed on 2021-03-10 16:56 (UTC-0500): > > >> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500): > > >>> ...It has 20GB RAM > > >> What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB? > > > Nope. It has four DRAM slots, and came with 16GB as four 4GB sticks > > in those slots. I replaced a 4GB stick with a 8GB stick to bring it > > to 20.
> Odds are that 32GB capable board features dual channel RAM. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architecture Possible. > IME when RAM is not used in matched pairs in correct slots in a dual channel > board, RAM speed (memtest86) is cut by nearly half. Did you test RAM speed > before > and after the change? No. I simply made sure I had RAM that matched the specs of the other sticks. The only difference was that one stick is 8GB instead of four. I was *not* using RAM of different speeds, and no mismatch was involved.. I saw *no* negative performance impact, and would have been startled if I did. > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
