Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

["PerfectReign" <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, October 30, 2006 8:16 am, Amit Joshi wrote:
> I want to upgrade my RAM from the current 256MB.

Very wise idea. I'd go with nothing less than 512, and these days
nothing less than 1GB.


> Now, I have heard that its wise to buy another 256MB chip and add it
> to the
> computer. Then what is called as the "Dual RAM Implementation" will
> come
> into effect, thus boosting the performance.

Dual Channel implementation.  It increases your performance on some
boards on some apps by up to 10%. You probably will never notice it,
unless you're doing highly intensive computational processess
utilizing large amounts of memory.  In this manner, the memory being
equal can be accessed as larger blocks than otherwise.


>
> I actually wished to buy another 512MB chip. Is it like 256Mb+256Mb
> will
> deliver a better performance compared to a single 512MB chip?

No. Get what you can afford. SUSE will take care of the rest. :)

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