{"id":2685,"date":"2010-01-17T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T20:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2010-01-17T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T20:36:39","slug":"ram-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/01\/17\/ram-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"RAM Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can anyone convince me why Triple-Channel, 1066 MHz memory is better than the 667 MHz sticks in my ancient laptop? You’re not allowed to say “It’s faster” or “There’s more bandwidth,” nor will I be content with seeing technical benchmarks with no relationship to how I use a computer. I’m curious about real-world cases in which I would actually be able to notice<\/em> the difference and say, “Oh yeah, that memory was slow.”<\/p>\n

I recognize that triple-channel, 1066 MHz sticks would be “faster” than old 667 MHz ones, but I can’t recall a time when I’ve ever been bogged down by slow memory transfer. I’m usually waiting on disk, or I just don’t have enough RAM, so discussion of RAM bandwidth feels quite academic and ethereal to me.<\/p>\n

Suppose you were given the choice between two computers at the same price: one had 8GB of RAM at 667 MHz, and the other had 6GB of triple-channel, 1333 MHz RAM. Is there a case when you would choose the faster memory over the one with more memory? Why? How much of an improvement would you see?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can anyone convince me why Triple-Channel, 1066 MHz memory is better than the 667 MHz sticks in my ancient laptop? You’re not allowed to say “It’s faster” or “There’s more bandwidth,” nor will I be content with seeing technical benchmarks … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}