On 20 July 2015 at 12:05, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > You might have just made your machine slower by doing that. Maybe. > Most modern CPUs are at least dual channel memory controller based, > but can only use the dual channel mode to interleave accesses if the > memory matches in size. So 2x4GB is fast, and 2x8GB is fast, but 4+8GB > would be slow.
Probably not much slower, though. Perhaps just a few percent. This test is rather old but the situation is somewhat similar: <http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Intel-Core-i7-Nehalem,2057-13.html> -- Scott --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
