<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Peter Kjellstrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cap@nsc.liu.se">cap@nsc.liu.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Can anyone confirm that mixing different sizes of dimms, even when keeping to<br>
a by-three-symmetric configuration, actually does degrade performance?<br>
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That is, first hand information that config 1 will be slower than config 2:<br>
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1: two sockets, 3x 1G and 3x 2G per socket RDIMM (total 18G @1066)<br>
2: two sockets, 6x 1G(or 2G) per socket RDIMM (total 12G (or 24G) @1066)</blockquote><div><br>No, it does not degrade performance as long as the CAS latencies of both DIMM types are identical and you would not get a clock-down by using that quantity of RAM ranks. We have been able to attain Intel's reported, magical 35GB/s number using ICC. GCC 4.3 is around 31GB/s. (At 1333MHz.)<br>
<br>We're a little reticent to approach this, though. It's certainly easier to explain whole units of divisible RAM quantities to customers. The whole tri-channel memory thing is already hard enough to have a conversation about. Especially when people write their specs as X GB of memory per core--where X is power of two.<br>
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