Introduction
One of the major updates in the most recent Athlon 64 line, previously reserved to the FX models only, was the inclusion of an on-board 128bit dual channel memory controller, which finally brought the Athlon family of processors on a memory speed par with their Intel siblings, and in some cases allowed the to perform better than those smug Pentium chips.
Due to one of those engineering accidents that will be funny once we get past the humiliation, we have recently been able to run a full battery of tests on a single channel Athlon 64 4000+. Since a lot of factory-made PCs these days are shipping with single 256 or 512 MB modules, we thought we’d take the opportunity to compare single-channel RAM performance with its double-channel counterpart, to finally answer the age-old question: is the second stick worth it? Let’s have a look.
Page 01: Introduction
Page 02: The Contenders
Page 03: The Benchmark Setup
Page 04: FutureMark PCMark04
Page 05: SiSoftware Sandra 2005 - Part 1
Page 06: SiSoftware Sandra 2005 - Part 2
Page 07: RightMark Memory Analyzer
Page 08: FutureMark 3DMark05
Page 09: Far Cry
Page 10: Doom 3
Page 11: Half-Life 2
Page 12: Need for Speed Underground 2
Page 13: The Verdict: Single Channel or Dual Channel?
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