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RAM Performance?
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:56 am
by dc81
On a T42 notebook with DDR RAM, do you get better performance if both slots are the same size? (2x512mb)? I was ordering a thinkpad with the min of 256mb, then I was going to add 1-gig chip. But I wanted to know if there would be better performance with 2-512mb chips.
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:28 am
by slagmi
I do not believe that system supports dual-channel mode, so no difference.
Even if it did I don't think the difference would be noticable becasuse of the FSB speed in question.
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:37 am
by padpad
The answer is yes!
You'll enjoy the advantage of big ram!
Suppose you use an application which is a big ram consumer, it'll employ your HDD as virtual mem if it's not satisfied. And you know the difference between HDD & ram speed...
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:44 am
by whizkid
The answer is no. Having both sticks the same size will NOT improve performance of the memory.