Which is faster, 4x1GB or 2x2GB?
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From: John Doe on 23 Apr 2008 15:12 Talking about RAM. Which is faster, four 1 GB modules or two 2 GB modules? Generally and typically speaking. Thanks.
From: johns on 23 Apr 2008 16:10 I've tested that several times ... and always came to the same conclusion ... "none of the above". I've put mixes of vendors and sizes in random orders in both Intel and AMD machines, and then run bench marks like Aquamark, and the different ram configs never made the slightest bit of difference, as long as the ram speeds were the same. I think other factors bottleneck this ram speed / config advantage. I'm guessing that bottleneck is caused by nearly everything on a PC is running off the hard drive with no optimizing of ram at all. Reason I think that is this new SuperFetch thing in Vista where Vista is trying to use ram cache to its max ... but the implementation is poor. Even Vista is pretty stupid about optimizing what actually gets pre-loaded to ram, so the hard drive still dominates the hardware. What we need, plain and simple, is 10 gigs of ram. johns
From: Kenny on 23 Apr 2008 16:55 John Doe wrote: > >Talking about RAM. Which is faster, four 1 GB modules or two 2 GB >modules? Generally and typically speaking. Thanks. The bottom line is: Two sticks are easier to troubleshoot than four if there are problems.
From: Michael Hawes on 23 Apr 2008 17:50 "Kenny" <Kenny@...> wrote in message news:uf8v041j9vf135j98nqcf9gc7f8mlgrvb9(a)news.altopia.com... > John Doe wrote: > >> >>Talking about RAM. Which is faster, four 1 GB modules or two 2 GB >>modules? Generally and typically speaking. Thanks. > > The bottom line is: > > Two sticks are easier to troubleshoot than four if there are problems. Many motherbordl cannot run 4 RAM modules at full speed. Mike.
From: DaveW on 23 Apr 2008 18:21
Most consumer motherboards have a tendency to develop memory timing errors when attempting to try using all four RAM slots on a given motherboard, You would be much better off stability wise using 2 x 2GB. -- --DaveW "John Doe" <jdoe(a)usenetlove.invalid> wrote in message news:eSLPj.10584$2g1.7943(a)nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com... > > Talking about RAM. Which is faster, four 1 GB modules or two 2 GB > modules? Generally and typically speaking. Thanks. |