Socket 754 & onboard video recipe for disaster?

[imported_Chargin]

S754 only has single channel access to the ram right, so if the MB has onboard video like the new 6150 chipset, the video ram is shared from the main ram. When both the CPU and the video are intensively using the ram will there be slowdowns because of this single channel access? Or does onboard video access the ram seperately from the CPU and they can both happily share the resources?
Theres a new Albatron board coming soon that has s754 and 6150 and 430 chipsets, looks good but I did wonder about this issue.

 

[imported_Chargin]

Anyone?

 

[acole1]

It should be ok... not great but ok. What will you be streaming? As long as it isn't HD then you shouldn't have much of a problem.

It isn't a preferable situation but it should work. I don't think the onboard video is even powerfull enough to soak enough memory bandwidth to be noticable.

Your bottleneck will be the GPU, not the memory bandwith I think.

 

[dguy6789]

Prior to dual channel technology, all integrated video systems ran off of a single channel subsystem. While they did not perform as well as stand alond graphics adaptors, the onboard video solutions never had any specific bandwidth related problems. You should be fine.

 

[Twsmit]

On top of that the K8 architecture is not "that" bandwidth intensive. Single channel should be plenty of bandwidth to the CPU and sharing some wont hurt that much.