[rescue] Q: Question regarding Ultra 30 RAM...

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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> When I am adding RAM to an Ultra 30, is there any benefit (performance-wise)
> to adding RAM in banks of four instead of two? i.e. 4x 32 Meg DIMMs vs. 2x
> 64 Meg DIMMs

Yes.  Populating memory in identical quads will interleave accesses, which
may give a speed boost in memory bandwidth bound situations.

-James