A reminder, the WLUG Fixit Meeting is today.
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Saturday April 5th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
We will be holding our SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/nz/hamilton/enderley/-te+whanau+ptahi/?place/full_map) the community church at the end of Oxford Street.
We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.
A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow.
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Saturday April 5th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
We will be holding our SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/nz/hamilton/enderley/-te+whanau+ptahi/?place/full_map) the community church at the end of Oxford Street.
We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.
So intel are deciding to finally innovate a solution people have been
asking for years.
[Intel today revealed it can convert single threaded software to
multithreaded mode without any code modification. The new 'speculative
parallel threading' process monitors software and examines whether its
processes can be run in parallel. If they can execute succesfully, the
software can be recompiled to run as a multithreaded app. Intel says it
has realised that programmers are going to need machine help to get
software running as multithreaded. "We can't blame the programmers," an
Intel spokesman said. "The industry has been complaining for 30 years
about how difficult parallel programming is."]
http://apcmag.com/we_can_transform_single_thread_to_multithread_intel.htm
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Anthony Cull
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Hi all.
I thought there may be a memory expert out there in WLUG land :)
Is it deemed a good idea to mix DUal channel with non-dual channel ram in a
machine with 4 ram slots? I currently have 1 gb of ddr2-667 ram and was
looking at getting another 2 gb but I'm not sure if it is worht getting dual
channel ram and running the dual channel in one pair of slots and the single
stick in one slot of the other pair.
Enquiring minds and all that :)
J
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> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:25:15 +1300
> From: "James Pluck" <papabearnz(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [wlug] Memory Question
> Hi all.
>
> I thought there may be a memory expert out there in WLUG land :)
>
> Is it deemed a good idea to mix DUal channel with non-dual channel ram in
> a
> machine with 4 ram slots? I currently have 1 gb of ddr2-667 ram and was
> looking at getting another 2 gb but I'm not sure if it is worht getting
> dual
> channel ram and running the dual channel in one pair of slots and the
> single
> stick in one slot of the other pair.
>
> Enquiring minds and all that :)
>
Well James,
You can run dual channel alongside your existing ram but there is
performance benefits not doing so. RAM is cheep these days and it might
be worth buying another dual channel of the same brand and type at a
latter date. The memory should work well together in a standard mode as
long as the memory is of the same timings etc.
You can mix it but don't expect the extra performance that dual channel
has apart from the performance of having more ram.
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Anthony Cull
cullanthony(a)fastmail.fm
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> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:25:15 +1300
> From: "James Pluck" <papabearnz(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [wlug] Memory Question
> Hi all.
>
> I thought there may be a memory expert out there in WLUG land :)
>
> Is it deemed a good idea to mix DUal channel with non-dual channel ram in
> a
> machine with 4 ram slots? I currently have 1 gb of ddr2-667 ram and was
> looking at getting another 2 gb but I'm not sure if it is worht getting
> dual
> channel ram and running the dual channel in one pair of slots and the
> single
> stick in one slot of the other pair.
>
> Enquiring minds and all that :)
>
Well James,
You can run dual channel alongside your existing ram but there is
performance benefits not doing so. RAM is cheep these days and it might
be worth buying another dual channel of the same brand and type at a
latter date. The memory should work well together in a standard mode as
long as the memory is of the same timings etc.
You can mix it but don't expect the extra performance that dual channel
has apart from the performance of having more ram.
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Anthony Cull
cullanthony(a)fastmail.fm
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love email again
There's a WLUG meeting tonight:
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7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
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