How helpful is enabling Dual Channel to SETI, FaD, and F@H?

[BCinSC]

Will getting second stick to enable dual channel significantly impact crunching? Have an Athlon 2500+ oc'd to 3200+ on nforce2 Ultra400 board and a P4/2.4HT on 875 board. Thanks.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Well, it will have an impact but the question is how big that one will be. ON an average nforce2 system DualChannel boost the overall performance by about 3 to 7 %, mostly 5%. So u could see a 5% increase in DC projects as well, depending on how intensive they use the memory.

That's for AMD. No idea about Pentiums and DualChannel.

 

[Confused]

For AMD Athlon XP systems, about 5% increase.

For P4 systems, the gain is MUCH greater. The P4s need as much memory bandwidth as possible


Garry

 

[Kokomo]

FaD ONLY - 2600/A7N8X/2x256 PC3200 Corsair XMS LL. I yanked a memory stick, no change in FaD. Not running F@H or NEP (never-ending-project).