Speed

[WildRhino]

I saw a thread a few weeks ago about this but I was left unsure.

Are two sticks of 128 meg faster than one stick of 256 meg? The main purpose is gaming. The last thread pointed towards 2*128 but this flies in the face of that which I have been told before.

 

[Guest]

it depends on if you can set the interleave to 4 on the single stick of ram.
most likely you can and 1 stick will be faster than 2.
if not well....

who is more foolish...
the fool, or the fool that takes his advice?

 

[yoda271828]

Two sticks of 128MB is <i>slightly</i> faster than one 256MB stick of the same brand. You will never even notice this small diference though. I suggest you just get good quality memory (Mushkin, Crucial) and not worry about getting 2 sticks vs. just one. I guarantee that a 256MB stick of Mushkin Rev.3 will be a lot faster than two 128MB generic sticks.