What is "dual-channel DDR"?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 16 17:19:28 UTC 2005


On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:33:21AM -0500, William Park wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:04:41AM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > Thanks Lennart and Jason,
> > 
> > I'm trying to spec a server for thin-clients in purely "office"
> > environment.  Because of the saving on the client-side, I have room to
> > indulge on the server-side.  At the moment, I'm eyeing
> >     
> >     1. Abit AV8 (AMD64, dual-channel 4GB max)
> >     2. Tyan Tiger K8W (dual-Opteron, single-channel registered 8GB max)
> 
> Typo... both are dual-channel.

The dual opteron might even be dual channel per cpu.  Does that count as
quad channel? :) (no it doesn't).

For some jobs maybe the ECC ram makes sense.  It also costs more and is
a bit slower.

What will this server be doing?

Lennart Sorensen
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