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4 dimm requirement seems kind of asinine. Normal systems can boot and work fine with a single stick of ram.
by NullPrefix 8y ago
4 dimm requirement seems kind of asinine. Normal systems can boot and work fine with a single stick of ram.
- bhouston 8y agoWell for high performance systems requiring 4 dimms isn't bad as the tr series has 4 memory controllers.
- tankenmate 8y agoYou don't have to run with 4 DIMMs but you'll run slower if you do; it's kinda like having a one lane road vs a 4 lane road, you can put all your traffic through one lane, but it's a whole lot slower than using four lanes.
- NullPrefix 8y agoThat was not the point I was arguing with. Let me qoute. >AMD should have just not made TR work in this case Where "this case" is <4 dimms.
- EvangelicalPig 8y agoDoes the equivalent Intel platform suffer to the same degree of performance degradation when not using all 4 memory channels?
- tankenmate 8y agoFor the most part yes, the only sizeable difference is the caching/NUMA strategies and implementation between the two platforms (L3 <=> DRAM controller(s), and interconnects if necessary).