At 1:54 AM -0400 4/10/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:At 01:35 AM -0400 04/10/2004, Powermac wrote:The thing is every little boost adds up in overall system speed improvement.
Exactly. Note however swapping out DIMMs for faster ones, or simply to interleave is probably the last thing I'd try to speed up a machine. Much more dramatic improvements can be seen by installing a larger cache, increasing the total amount of RAM, using faster hard drives or processor(s).
Having significantly more memory available will definitely outweigh a 15% speed increase from interleaving. Especially since you can still have some memory interleaved and some not.
Extra memory - unused - is a wasted resource. It adds NOTHING to performance, although a case could be made for performance of the memory manufacturer's stock price. My point was that if I was looking to speed up my computer, buying DIMMs *just to interleave* isn't worth it.
Any RAM is still faster than caching to your harddisk.
But I was referring to the L1, L2, and L3 caches. *real* memory, not virtual disk space.
- Dan.
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