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Kind of off topic but is there any major performance difference between 8x1 and 2x4 RAMs?
by Achshar 14y ago
Kind of off topic but is there any major performance difference between 8x1 and 2x4 RAMs?
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoThere can be. In particular in some scenarios the 2x4 GB set might be faster, here is why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architectu...
- ajross 14y agoAll desktop CPUs have 2 64 bit channels right now, you should never configure a machine with a single DIMM. The bigger server CPUs (e.g. the LGA2011 socket) have four. Mobile SoCs almost all use 1x32, though a few recent high end ones (Intel Medfield and the A6 at least) have 2x32.