19 Sep
2007
19 Sep
'07
22:21
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 15:11, Hans Witvliet wrote:
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Maximize mem sounds nice, but...
Things must be balanced. An ultra-fast, multi-core CPU with wimpy RAM just wastes the CPUs, e.g.
Would you rather use a dual-core with 8GB or a quad-core with 4GB. or: 4GB DDR-3 or 8GB DDR-2
Well, to date, I've done well with 2 GB for the past few years, but I put 4 GB in a Core 2 Duo-based system I built recently. So in this case (assuming all the pertinent mainboard hardware were capable), I'd go with the DDR-3, since RAM remains a bottleneck (all the more so with multi-core CPUs).
Hans
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