Re: Athlon64 question

From: "Mark A" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:44:18 -0600

"Tony" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Sorry if I'm hijacking this thread..
>
> But what is this Dual Channel Feature?
> I'm still in the Dimms world, but will sometime soon be making the
> move to ddr.. I guess this is one more reason why one should get two
> sticks of 512 instead of a single 1 gig?
>
> -Tony!-
>
If your motherboard supports dual channel memory, you should get two sticks
(preferably a matched pair). Dual channel is "sort of" like disk RAID
stripping for memory and is faster than single channel. If you don't
understand RAID stripping for disk, then start doing some googling.

.

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