Re: Dual Memory Architecture...worth it in a business environment?
- From: nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul)
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:54:28 GMT
In article <1143814916.566185.292310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"ridergroov" <ridergroov1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey folks. I'm getting ready to do a few RAM upgrades at work and some
of the PCs have dual banks with 256 made up of 2 x128 sticks. My goal
is to get them up to 512 but i'm wondering if I should just buy 1 stick
of 256 for the upgrade which would bring the speed down to single
memory speeds but also if we want to upgrade again, I won't be pulling
sticks out that are ultimately wastes because I don't have anyway to
put them on the next upgrade. Is the dual memory architecture worth it
in a business environment where most people are doing word processing
stuff?
The main thing in a upgrade, is that the users don't notice
what you've done :-) On systems that have integrated graphics
and no separate video card, there is a slight difference in
graphics update performance, between a single channel and a
dual channel memory configuration. (In fact, on an 865GE based
system, I could tell the machine had single channel, just from
working on it, without opening it up or using a utility to
check.) If the computers have separate video cards, then that
aspect is less of an issue.
In terms of benchmarks, you can see some results here, between
single and dual channel. While the source of the info is not
unbiased, you can see there would be somewhere around a 7% to
11% difference in application performance (figure 3).
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/Dual_DDR_SB.pdf
So if the machines had dual channel previously, install dual
channel again, for fewest complaints about the "upgrade" :-)
Paul
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