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To: Ali Chen who wrote (64542)	11/29/2001 1:06:11 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Ali you're missing the future potential when AMD optimizes a processor to utilized the 2nd channel as well as showing how the integrated Video uses the 2nd channel which in turn shows a CPU performance gain. Secondly, the current TBird Athlon / Athlon XP processors aren't designed to take advantage of a dual channel interface. If you'll remember, when the original Pentium III with RDRAM hit the market, there was very little performance gain, due to the processor not being able to manage the memory bandwidth correctly. When the Pentium 4 with RDRAM came out, absolutely huge performances were shown with the same memory technology. The same concept applies here, as the Athlon isn't designed with a dual channel interface in mind, so it simply uses the single channel and leaves the other half relatively unused. The chart on the right proves the potential of the platform. Guess you were focusing on the Left chart. P.S. All nForce MB have 3 DIMMS's if you use 3 DIMMS you only get 1 channel not 2. If you use 1 you get 1 and use 2 memory sticks of the exact memory type and size you get dual channels. M.