Comments on: The Blue Screen of Worse Than Death http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/the-blue-screen-of-worse-than-death/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Lorenzo http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/the-blue-screen-of-worse-than-death/#comment-678 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:35:32 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/the-blue-screen-of-worse-than-death/#comment-678 ..but at boot, my Asus P5B reports: "Memory: 2048 Mb, Dual Channel, Interleaved" (I can get a shot of it if you want) So this would let me to believe that the memory is indeed interleaved (a la "raid-0").. or not? ..but at boot, my Asus P5B reports:
"Memory: 2048 Mb, Dual Channel, Interleaved" (I can get a shot of it if you want) So this would let me to believe that the memory is indeed interleaved (a la "raid-0").. or not?

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/the-blue-screen-of-worse-than-death/#comment-673 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:04:47 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/the-blue-screen-of-worse-than-death/#comment-673 Dual channel is just... two memory channels. There's no interleaving or anything. In Motherboard Specifications Land, you can mix up pretty much anything you like as long as you've got an even number of modules, and the RAM will just run at the highest speed everything supports. In practice there can, of course, be compatibility issues, and I suppose you could lose out on the performance benefits if the smaller module's full and not doing much, but this setup's working A-OK for me right now. Dual channel is just... two memory channels. There's no interleaving or anything. In Motherboard Specifications Land, you can mix up pretty much anything you like as long as you've got an even number of modules, and the RAM will just run at the highest speed everything supports.

In practice there can, of course, be compatibility issues, and I suppose you could lose out on the performance benefits if the smaller module's full and not doing much, but this setup's working A-OK for me right now.

]]> by: Lorenzo http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/the-blue-screen-of-worse-than-death/#comment-672 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:36:07 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/the-blue-screen-of-worse-than-death/#comment-672 Dual channel *DO* work with different sized ram? How? I tought dual channel was the Raid-0 of Ram.. stripining half of the bytes on the first ram module and the other half on the second. If size is different.. how can this be accomplished? Dual channel *DO* work with different sized ram? How?
I tought dual channel was the Raid-0 of Ram.. stripining half of the bytes on the first ram module and the other half on the second. If size is different.. how can this be accomplished?

]]> by: qupada http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/the-blue-screen-of-worse-than-death/#comment-670 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:10:45 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/01/31/the-blue-screen-of-worse-than-death/#comment-670 Geez, unlucky. I have a 2x512MB pair of otherwise identical ram, which has been running next to my hot (89W TDP) Athlon64 for more than two years now without any issues (touch wood). To make life even better, in my not terribly well designed motherboard, dual-channel is achieved by having memory modules in <b>adjacent</b> sockets, so the heatsinks of the two modules are in fact touching. Maybe I should start getting worried. Geez, unlucky. I have a 2x512MB pair of otherwise identical ram, which has been running next to my hot (89W TDP) Athlon64 for more than two years now without any issues (touch wood).
To make life even better, in my not terribly well designed motherboard, dual-channel is achieved by having memory modules in adjacent sockets, so the heatsinks of the two modules are in fact touching.
Maybe I should start getting worried.

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