Dual Channel

[StrangleHold]

I could easily say the same when you state that HyperThreading is strictly AMD not Intel.

"The appetite gap even affects relatively high-end chipsets like Intel's 845PE, which supports the latest Pentium 4 chips and Hyper-Threading technology, but is limited to the 333MHz memory speed of DDR333 (a.k.a. PC2700). The latter type of memory is a great match for a 333MHz-bus Athlon XP, but pairing it with a 533MHz-bus Pentium 4 is like using a Porsche to drive in city traffic." http://www.cpuplanet.com/features/article.php/1587771

Note the date on the article seen there was 2/19/2003.

Your really out there, you have no idea what your talking about. We were talking about Hypertransport not HyperThreading, of course Intel uses HyperThreading.

And guess what was in your own link. It would be best if you just dropped it.

On the AMD side, we have the nForce and nForce2, which are at this writing the only two chipsets to supply dual-channel goodness for the Athlon XP. The original nForce was in many ways too little too late, but the new and improved dual-channel DDR400 nForce2 has been a smash success -- in fact, is today's de facto choice for performance-minded AMD desktop buyers.

 

[zaroba]

getting back to the original topic about Geil ram...

I've had 2x 2gb Geil sticks in this PC since April with no problems at all.
and seeing how the price of em dropped to only $130 from the $310 i originally bought em at, i'm kinda thinking of buying another 4gb for this pc.

 

[PC eye]

The article I was referring to earlier never specified any one particular chipset but was supposedly giving an overall view on the dual channel technology at the time. If I just want to hear about the nForce 2 platform as far as dual channel, http://www.dslreports.com/faq/9216

 

[StrangleHold]

getting back to the original topic about Geil ram...

I've had 2x 2gb Geil sticks in this PC since April with no problems at all.
and seeing how the price of em dropped to only $130 from the $310 i originally bought em at, i'm kinda thinking of buying another 4gb for this pc.

There nothing wrong with Geil. I have used them before with no problem, there not at the top of my list. But if you had no problem with them go for it.

 

[vonfeldt7]

getting back to the original topic about Geil ram...

I've had 2x 2gb Geil sticks in this PC since April with no problems at all.
and seeing how the price of em dropped to only $130 from the $310 i originally bought em at, i'm kinda thinking of buying another 4gb for this pc.

THANKS!!!! I think you are the first one in the last 3 pages of crap that posted something relevant.

 

[PC eye]

THANKS!!!! I think you are the first one in the last 3 pages of crap that posted something relevant.

Have you ever heard of "flexible dual channal"? Most articles and advisors will point out the need for matched pairs of dimms in order to run a board in the dual channel mode. Not all boards like the Intel models with the SIS 655FX chipset apparently. http://www.sis.com/elibrary/elibrary_index03_000006.htm

Then there were those that played down dual channel from the start.

The Dual-Channel Memory Performance Myth--Mostly Sizzle, Not Much Steak by Article Admin

Published: 01/12/2004

"Its not that dual-channel DDR systems are completely worthless, its that the general gain (outside of specialized applications) is typically around 3-7% in benchmarks where it matters at all?and there are plenty where it doesn?t.

The point of all this isn?t to point fingers or level blame on Intel or AMD for ?deceiving? buyers (especially at this juncture), its to shed light on how a simple statistic can become a marketing force capable of justifying vast premiums for products that offer only minimally more performance than their lower-priced cousins. It?s a high-tech version of the Emperor?s New Clothes, a game of one-upmanship where neither side is willing to admit how far from reality the game has gotten. Why did Intel focus on memory bandwidth? Because it was a big number they could tout. Why did AMD focus on dual-channel configurations? Because Intel had dual-channel configurations. And everyone (even the people for whom it couldn?t possibly matter) bought into it, because we learned somewhere along the way that two is better than one." http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/a..._myth_mostly_sizzle_not_much_steak/conclusion

Someone say nForce 2? http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inqui...ce2-400-dethrones-its-dual-channel-stablemate Single channel outperforms dual channel.

 

[salman]

I'm using in Geil in my comp and the family comp and they both seem to be going solid. Family comp was bought about 3 yrs ago, my comp was bought late february this year. I think I might add some more RAM sometime soon aswell, i'll go with Geil again as I've had no probs with them.

 

[PC eye]

I've never used GEIL here to say first hand whether it's good or bad. This is what I hear often from independent repair shops when conversing with techs there.

From personal experience you have to run memtest on any memory installed to see if reports a number of errors. That will show if the board is a fussbudget about what is used on it. Both Corsair and Kingston a pair of the top names saw unexplained errors for that reason while no faults were found with them on the next board.