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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:45:18 +0300 |
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"Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <alexey.kv@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 02:46, b.n. wrote: |
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> > If you want to start with 1 Gb, buy a |
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> > single 1 Gb stick, and not two 512 Mb ones -so when you will want to |
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> > upgrade, you'll have less problems. |
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> I think it's not a good idea. Because AMD X2 has dual channel memory |
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> controller, and memory bandwidth will fall in 2 times with one stick. |
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> 2*512MB not a big problem - I have 2*512M + 1G on one of my boxes - |
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> most of motherboards have 3-4 memory slots. |
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By the time 1G isn't good enough for linux DDR2 ram will be worth so |
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little, it seems to me that it would be better to save the money now |
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and buy more ram later, should it become an issue. Even if that meant |
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having to replace the 2 sticks rather than add to them, it would still |
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be financially preferable. |
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Besides, the motherboard you mentioned above has 4 slots for ram, not |
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