HT Max Performance Question

[wired]

I have read something and I want to know if its true.
I have a friend who is putting together a new pc.
He has.

Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB, 512mb cache HT
Mobo Gigabyte GA-8KNXP (REV 2.0) i875P chipset
1GB Corsair XMS PC-4000 DDR 500
The mobo has 6 slots for ram.

He was told that with hyper threading technology, you won't get the max performance unless you have 2 sticks of RAM. Put one in the first DDR slot and one in the 4th DDR slot if you have 6 slots.

Is this true becasue I have never heard of this.

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: wired
I have read something and I want to know if its true.
I have a friend who is putting together a new pc.
He has.

Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB, 512mb cache HT
Mobo Gigabyte GA-8KNXP (REV 2.0) i875P chipset
1GB Corsair XMS PC-4000 DDR 500
The mobo has 6 slots for ram.

He was told that with hyper threading technology, you won't get the max performance unless you have 2 sticks of RAM. Put one in the first DDR slot and one in the 4th DDR slot if you have 6 slots.

Is this true becasue I have never heard of this.

i dunno if this is necessarily true about HT but i know that two sticks of ram will give better performance if setup in dual channel configuration (i.e. slots 1 3 or 2 4 or howver the mobo handles two sticks)

i875 is a dual channel board... hence running two sticks of ram will give better performance

 

[wired]

thank you for that info, what will really help him
as well as me in the future.