Interleaving memory? Is there BIG improvement?

[gredodenda]

I got a Supermicro X7DAE mobo. According to mobo, it supports interleaving memory only when 4 FBDIMMS are used. My question is...

Is there a huge performance gain by interleaving memory?

With 2GB(2x1GB) - no interleaving support
With 4GB(2x1GB)(2x1GB) - interleaving support. Too clostly though....but I still want to know what interleaving memory can do...I did a google for interleaving memory, but couldn't find tested system report....

somebody please give me a light on this...

 

[xtknight]

If I recall the real world difference was only about 10%, and that was in WinRAR. The term you're looking for is generally "dual channel". "Interleaving" is a rarely used term.

 

[gredodenda]

only 10%....I was hoping much more...thanks xtknight

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: gredodenda
I got a Supermicro X7DAE mobo. According to mobo, it supports interleaving memory only when 4 FBDIMMS are used. My question is...

Is there a huge performance gain by interleaving memory?

With 2GB(2x1GB) - no interleaving support
With 4GB(2x1GB)(2x1GB) - interleaving support. Too clostly though....but I still want to know what interleaving memory can do...I did a google for interleaving memory, but couldn't find tested system report....

somebody please give me a light on this...

Perhaps you were putting them in the wrong slots. Try two sticks in slots 1 and 3.

Interleaving memory, ie: running memory in dual-channel mode doubles the memory bandwidth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_channel

 

[gredodenda]

I'm not installing them yet. I'm just going by the manual about the memory slots. I was wondering if dual channel memory is worth or not in a real practical way...not so much on what it says it can do...