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Re: should I use triple-channel RAM with quad-core CPU?

Date Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:42:42 -0500
From Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com>
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On 06/02/2011 12:20 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> About 5 years ago, I was working in a geophysical processing centre.
> This involves lots of number crunching, and also lots of data
> shifting. They were always trying out Intel versus AMD, different
> chipsets and memory et cetera. There were both linux clusters and
> graphics workstations that had to be the fastest. Now I recall one
> of the IT testers saying for a dual-core CPU, you needed dual-channel
> RAM, otherwise the memory bandwidth would drag you down.
> Nowadays, we have 4,6, 8 cores. So then should triple-channel RAM
> be mandatory?
>

Not really mandatory, remember that even while we're heading towards 
tri-channel and quad-channel memory, the memory itself is getting faster 
individually too. They are also simultaneously increasing the cache 
sizes and adding newer levels of cache such as going from L2 to L3 now.

	Yousuf Khan

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Re: should I use triple-channel RAM with quad-core CPU? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2011-02-09 15:42 -0500

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