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July 30th 08, 12:10 AM
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2 GB dual channel vs 3 GB single channel
I bought a 1 GB stick of RAM for my comp today, but I made the rookie mistake of not realizing that having an odd number of sticks of RAM in my comp (3x1GB) would make me lose the dual channel. So my question is, do I lose performance by not having the dual channel? Would I actually gain some by having additional memory? Or is it really a crapshoot with no real gain or loss of performance either way? Thanks. -- FrozenEclipse 
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July 30th 08, 01:29 AM
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2 GB dual channel vs 3 GB single channel
Hi,
An interesting read, especially the single line under Actual Results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-channel_architecture -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "FrozenEclipse" wrote in message ... I bought a 1 GB stick of RAM for my comp today, but I made the rookie mistake of not realizing that having an odd number of sticks of RAM in my comp (3x1GB) would make me lose the dual channel. So my question is, do I lose performance by not having the dual channel? Would I actually gain some by having additional memory? Or is it really a crapshoot with no real gain or loss of performance either way? Thanks. -- FrozenEclipse
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July 30th 08, 02:43 AM
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2 GB dual channel vs 3 GB single channel
dual channel will 2x your RAM performance. -- SCSIraidGURU Michael A. McKenney 'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com) Supermicro X7DWA-N server board pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons 16GB DDR667 SAS RAID eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card
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July 30th 08, 02:52 AM
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2 GB dual channel vs 3 GB single channel
You'll see a net performance gain by having the additional Gig of RAM even
if it is running at a slower speed. -- "FrozenEclipse" wrote in message ... I bought a 1 GB stick of RAM for my comp today, but I made the rookie mistake of not realizing that having an odd number of sticks of RAM in my comp (3x1GB) would make me lose the dual channel. So my question is, do I lose performance by not having the dual channel? Would I actually gain some by having additional memory? Or is it really a crapshoot with no real gain or loss of performance either way? Thanks. -- FrozenEclipse
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