Dual Channel???

[jay4u]

thanks buddy... seams like i need to go buy another 512 mn transcend.... i was going to buy it anyways....

And what about the dual sided ram vs. the single sided ram chip.....

 

[Kniwor]

@Kniwor
Yeah, memory benchmarking will definitely show the differences. The only thing which I wanted to point out was that, the memory bandwidth is very seldom a limitation in everyday work, unless ofcourse you do stuff which taxes the memory subsystem like video encoding/high res gaming. In most cases, the system is bottlenecked by the disk transfer rate, filesystem or the sheer number crunching power of the processor.

What if i have integrated graphics that share the memory, itś very important to have high transfer rates, and dual channel is really helpful then.

as u agree that there is a 30-40% increase in memory performance, it is helpful in ways. Now let the third person decide if he wants to get a dual channel or not.

 

[siriusb]

And what about the dual sided ram vs. the single sided ram chip.....

Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMM) have 64bit data path whereas a SIMM has only 32bit data path. I don't think there are many simms around with recent processors.

 

[jay4u]

OKIE... SIRIUSB... DUAL INCLINE MEMORY MEANS HAVING IC CHIPS ON BOTH SIDES OF MMEMORY CHIPS RIGHT.... OR IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH RAM CHIP ARCHITECTURE...

PRETTY CONFUSED... I WANTED TO KNOW THAT IF I HAVE 2 RAM ONE WITH IC ONLY ON ONE SIDE ON IT AND ANOTHER WITH IC ON BOTH SIDES OF IT... THEN WHICH ONE SHOULD I GO FOR....

 

[siriusb]

Hmm...AFAIK, SIMMs came only for EDO rams, so you can treat that ram module u have as a dimm. As far as DIMM is concerned, two-sides of memory is not important, rather, the data path should be 64 bits. That is, the two sides of the module must have it's own contacts.