Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <alexey.kv@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:06:31
Message-Id: 200707100045.22386.alexey.kv@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo by "b.n."
1 On Tuesday 10 July 2007 02:46, b.n. wrote:
2 > If you want to start with 1 Gb, buy a
3 > single 1 Gb stick, and not two 512 Mb ones -so when you will want to
4 > upgrade, you'll have less problems.
5 I think it's not a good idea. Because AMD X2 has dual channel memory
6 controller, and memory bandwidth will fall in 2 times with one stick. 2*512MB
7 not a big problem - I have 2*512M + 1G on one of my boxes - most of
8 motherboards have 3-4 memory slots.
9
10 --
11 best regards,
12 Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
13 my public GPG/PGP key: http://www.alexey-kv.org.ua/pubkey.asc

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