Boy, do I ever agree with that. I don't want to go into detail; it's not a happy story. Tom says "Always leave open RAM slots". Amen.
- Tony Rudié -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Fitzgerald Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BBLISA] RAM speed difference? > There are very few reasons to pick a single channel config over a > dual. Real world benchmarks tend to show the difference being minor, > but if it's 6 of 1 vs a half dozen of the other, go dual channel. The one overwhelming reason would be if a dual channel setup (twice the slots with half as much RAM per slot) required all slots to be filled, when there was even the slightest chance you'd ever want to add RAM later. Honestly I've never been able to see the speed difference in dual channel memory under a real life workload. Several times I've had to add more RAM to a system that, when I bought it, I was sure would have enough. As a result I always leave open RAM slots. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
