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RAM Performance?

#1 Post by dc81 » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:56 am

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.

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#2 Post by slagmi » Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:28 am

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.

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#3 Post by padpad » Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:37 am

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... :P
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#4 Post by whizkid » Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:44 am

The answer is no. Having both sticks the same size will NOT improve performance of the memory.
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