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How does this work? What's the point?
felix88
06-15-2003, 09:29 AM
WELCOME TO XTREME!!!
to answer your question, dual channel ram uses 2 sticks of ram similar to 2 hard drives in a RAID 0 array. it doubles the theoretical bandwidth.
Thanks for the welcoming and the answer to my question!
Tilmitt
06-15-2003, 10:40 AM
What about DDR2, does it transfer 4 times per clock?
felix88
06-15-2003, 01:52 PM
actually DDR2 is just DDR that can achieve much higher clock speeds.
i believe the GF FX5800 and 5900 use it to hit those 1000MHz memory clock speeds.
DCDDR or Dual Channel DDR also gives you a 128bit mem ory bus as opposed to 64bit on SCDDR (single channel ddr)
WELCOME TO THE XTREME!
Craig