which would offer best performance?

i have a stick comming today identical to one of the stick i have now but i already have 1 gig of ram. don't know whether to use the 512 somewhere else, or just have 1.5gig


thoughts?

11/14/2005 11:18:50 AM

I would think for most a gig is enough.

If it came down to 512 in one machine and 1.5 in the other I would just put a gig in each.

Otherwise go 1.5

11/14/2005 11:37:03 AM

I would go with the 1gb dual channel.

11/14/2005 11:39:03 AM

dual channel without a doubt

11/14/2005 11:50:10 AM

what is the big technical advantage of having RAM in duel channel versus single channel. like y is 1gig in duel channel better than 1.5 gig in single channel?

11/14/2005 11:59:27 AM

when its in duel channel you can watch it fight when not in use

11/14/2005 12:07:09 PM

^^

On the most basic level: It's faster.

11/14/2005 12:11:41 PM

none of the posts here can even be considered relevant or "right" without knowing the chipset and processor.

11/14/2005 3:56:38 PM

I won't pretend like I read anand or some crap every day, but I recall the advantage of having dual channel being less than 10% improvement.

11/14/2005 4:14:58 PM

yeah maybe dual channel DDR400 on a 400FSB Athlon XP...

11/14/2005 7:33:48 PM

XP 2700+ 333MHz FSB


GA-7N400 Pro
nForce2 Ultra400 chipset

11/14/2005 8:32:47 PM

single channel 1.5gb

11/15/2005 1:35:15 AM

yeah but dual is MORE than single

it means 2

11/15/2005 1:42:14 AM

11/15/2005 1:50:57 AM

^^^ your reasoning ?

400MHz is not that much > than 366?

[Edited on November 15, 2005 at 2:27 AM. Reason : .]

11/15/2005 2:26:57 AM

the memory controller is dual channel on one side, (memory side) but a single pipe to your processor. performance increase of going dual channel is not going to be greater than that of 50% more ram

11/15/2005 10:30:48 AM