Uh. Yes. You are right, Tina. I bought the Mac Pro last summer, and bumped to 12GB, 3 x 4GB sticks. I was told to remove the 4th small stick to improve performance.
On Oct 15, 11:51 pm, "Tina K." <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011/10/15 21:11, Brielle Bruns wrote: > > > Sticks of ram are done in pairs if they use interleaving to improve > > performance. There's no such thing as triple or quad (unless its > > something non-standard and obscure). 4 sticks is basically 2 banks of 2 > > interleaved sticks. > > My un-educated internet research revealed that three identical sticks > ran faster than two, and four sticks ran inbetween two & three stick > speeds. Don't remember the url of the test unfortunately. > > A Google search for "triple channel ram" returns over 1,000,000 results > that seem to say that there is such a thing as triple channel memory, I > believe that is what is indicated by the DDR3 designation. > > <http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=triple+channel+ram> > > Tina > > -- > > HP Presario 2.8GHz Celeron D 2GB RAM Onboard graphics XP Pro > > iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 > > PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.5.8 > > Mac Pro Mid-2010 2.8 GHz QC 6 GB RAM Radeon HD 5770 1GB VRAM 10.6.7 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
