Renegade Public Forums
C&C: Renegade --> Dying since 2003™, resurrected in 2024!
Home » General Discussions » General Discussion » Computer trouble
Re: Computer trouble [message #184934 is a reply to message #184931] Fri, 06 January 2006 13:56 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
icedog90 is currently offline  icedog90
Messages: 3483
Registered: April 2003
Karma:
General (3 Stars)
Scythar wrote on Fri, 06 January 2006 12:25

icedog90 wrote on Fri, 06 January 2006 14:53

Dual channel isn't a certain type of memory, it's two sticks of DDR that are both exactly the same and are being effectively doubled in bandwidth from the RAM to the CPU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_channel



Actually, the bandwidth is only doubled between the RAM and memory controller. There's still only one frontside bus (between CPU and chipset), which is exactly why dual channel doesn't bring such a huge performance increase in AMD chips than Intel, since AMD doesn't have as fast FSB and it creates a bottleneck. Intel's fast 800 Mhz(= 2x DDR400 speed) is great for dual channel arcitechture.


I knew someone would jump in and attempt to correct me because I said "bandwidth". I was talking about the bits, not the actual bandwidth. Utilizing two 64-bit channels, it results in a total bandwidth of 128 bits for moving from the RAM to the CPU.
 
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Previous Topic: Post your Playlist for 2006
Next Topic: 1337 PHP Proxy Script I Just Found
Goto Forum:
  


Current Time: Thu Jul 18 05:52:52 MST 2024

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.01098 seconds