Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

I saw a magazine/website comparison of these different memory configs 
recently, and they tested them with Sandra. There were significant 
differences (to gamers!), but I can't find it at the moment. If I come 
across it again, I'll send you the url.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@...>
>
> Not so according to Intel with their 875 chipset!
>
> ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/applnots/25273001.pdf

You're right, having four identical DIMMs allows it to use dynamic paging
mode, which provides some increment in performance. But from their
description, it sounds like a small benefit compared to the huge gain you
get when going from a 64-bit to a 128-bit data path. Just having matched
pairs is enough for that. I certainly didn't notice any slowdown when I
added the second pair, although I didn't run any memory benchmarks.