Guess I should've posted this here 🙂
I have always been under the impression that running larger dimms vs smaller dimms has had a higher latency. But reading a recent article here :
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2641&p=4
Running four double-sided 512MB or 1GB DIMMs is much more demanding than running two DS DIMMs, and ULi behaved as expected. Like every board that we have tested, except the DFI RDX200, we needed to drop the Command Rate to 2T with 4 DS DIMMs. With 4 DIMMs, the M1697 remained stable with the same aggressive 2-2-2-7 timings used for two DS DIMMs.
The above almost shows that users should be buying larger and less dimms. I recently bought CM2X512A-6400 XMS2-6400 512MB 5-5-5-12 240 DIMM Black XMS2 corsair memory for my new system. Should I have bought 1 1GB stick rather than 2 512Mb sticks?
I have always been under the impression that running larger dimms vs smaller dimms has had a higher latency. But reading a recent article here :
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2641&p=4
Running four double-sided 512MB or 1GB DIMMs is much more demanding than running two DS DIMMs, and ULi behaved as expected. Like every board that we have tested, except the DFI RDX200, we needed to drop the Command Rate to 2T with 4 DS DIMMs. With 4 DIMMs, the M1697 remained stable with the same aggressive 2-2-2-7 timings used for two DS DIMMs.
The above almost shows that users should be buying larger and less dimms. I recently bought CM2X512A-6400 XMS2-6400 512MB 5-5-5-12 240 DIMM Black XMS2 corsair memory for my new system. Should I have bought 1 1GB stick rather than 2 512Mb sticks?
