Which one delivers faster performance? 2x1024MB or 1x2048MB?

smafi2000

smafi2000

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I am try to build a PC soon.

To get the fast performance of my RAM, does it matter if I buy 2 RAM of 1G or 1 RAM 2G? :confused:

your common or know any article would be greatly appreciated. :D

Thank you, peace, and God Bless you. :)
 
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Cpetrie

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I am not disagreeing, merely trying to fully understand. I was under the impression that the intention of Dual Channel was to alternately divide packets between two sticks of RAM, theoretically doubling the size of the RAM (eg. Two 1GB sticks (2GB) in Dual Channel = ~4GB of total memory). From what I understand, the so called doubled memory is slightly less that what 2x the amount of RAM you have would be, so, to use my earlier example, 2GB 'doubled' by Dual Channel would be slightly less than 4GB...right?
 
smafi2000

smafi2000

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According to Tom’s hardware article: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ram,1190.html
2G would be plenty of RAM, any more then 2G would be a waste of our money. Most of the mobo comes with 6 RAM slot!

Garethman!!` said:
2x 1GB sticks will give better performance because it will enable Dual-Channel RAM.
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I agree with Garethman!!` to get Dual-Channel out of 2G RAM is better to get 2x 1G for a total of 2G RAM, instead of 1 sticks of 2G and get a single-Channel out of a 2G RAM. sorry I don’t have any article to support this theory. more about this topic: forum: http://www.bigbruin.com/forum/about341.html

The only benefit that I can see for buying a 1x 2G sticks is so the PC would have less items therefore have a better air circulation for cooling and power saving.

just found this article by Tom’s hardware, hope this info is helpful: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/PARALLEL-PROCESSING,1705.html

I hope this info help to all who love making there PC fast :D, peace, and God Bless you. :)
 
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Rambo

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Cpetrie said:
I am not disagreeing, merely trying to fully understand. I was under the impression that the intention of Dual Channel was to alternately divide packets between two sticks of RAM, theoretically doubling the size of the RAM (eg. Two 1GB sticks (2GB) in Dual Channel = ~4GB of total memory). From what I understand, the so called doubled memory is slightly less that what 2x the amount of RAM you have would be, so, to use my earlier example, 2GB 'doubled' by Dual Channel would be slightly less than 4GB...right?
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Dual channel doesn't double the amount of your RAM. All it does is theoretically double the speed between the memory controller and the RAM.

I would go with 2 x 1GB or RAM. That doesn't mean you're going to get twice the performance, but there is a (slight) performance increase when using dual channel memory configurations.
 
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