On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:54:13AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
dtutty@porchlight.ca writes:
I've just about finished building my new computer and need to decide
which Debian port to install (i386 vs AMD64).
Hardware:
Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 3800+ (The best AM2 not on long back-order)
One 1-GB stick of 800 MHz ECC ram
Just a note: Board and CPU support dual channel RAM. It probably
takes a performance hit if you give it only one memory module.
It would take quite a big performance hit I suspect. It would
essentially drop to the performance of the socket 754 systems, rather
than the socket 939 performance. For example the 512k L2 socket 754 at
2.4GHz was ranked as a 3400+, while the socket 939 using dual channel
memory was ranked a 3800+. Not using two 512MB sticks or two 1GB sticks
just doesn't make that much sense.
--
Len Sorensen
Is this true? I have an amd64 4000+ system with 1GB memory in a single
slot, does this hamper performance that much?