Will Dual Channel Benefits Improve

[russel]

So far as I can tell, dual channel capability normally provides a 5-10% performance increase even though the theoretical bandwidth is doubled.

Is this because software doesn't really take advantage of dual channel capabilities?

What I'm really trying to get to is this: Will the 5-10% performance increase from dual channel improve to more than 10% in the future, or will dual channel always just be 5-10% better than single channel?

I would get dual channel if the performance advantage will increase in the future.

Thanks for any input.

 

[Crashman]

5-10% for AMD platforms perhaps, but Intel platforms utilize it much better. Intel needs the extra bandwidth just to get fair performance.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>