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Performance of Multiple RAM Sticks Compared to Single Sticks

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Mar 15, 20262923 views
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It's no secret that using two physical drives gives better performance than two partitions on the same physical drive; because there are two devices, they each have their own platters, head, caches, controllers, etc. (eventual system bottlenecks and such aside). I'm wondering if the same thing is t…

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Fix for: Performance of Multiple RAM Sticks Compared to Single Sticks

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Even if you're not concerned about future upgrades, get the 2 x 1GB sticks. If nothing else, it's fewer points of failure. The speed difference between 4 x 512 and 2 x 1024 is negligible if they're running at the same clock speed and voltage. It's a…

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