the "experience" ***56K DIALUP WARNING!!!!!***

[Apoptosis]

So the key numbers here are:

RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 5456 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 5447 MB/s

Try putting them in the same colored slots closest to the CPU sockets and re-run the test and we will see what happens. Do this before you update the BIOS as a different BIOS will make these results useless.

[stopthekilling77]

gotcha, and yeah its been up to the latest bios now since it was the first thing i did when i got in

now to re-set the DIMMs!

[stopthekilling77]

Woah.

"SiSoftware Sandra

Benchmark Results
RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 6399 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 6382 MB/s
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better."

[DMB2000uk]

Dual Channel for the win it seems

Dan

[stopthekilling77]

yeah, anyone have AIM? i could use a little chatting on this stuff

[Apoptosis]

Single Channel:
RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 5456 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 5447 MB/s

Dual Channel:
RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 6399 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 6382 MB/s

averages - 5452MB/s versus 6392MB/s

So you gained 940MB/Sec (nearly 1GB of transfer per second), which is a 17.89% performance increase by having them in the right slot... Glad you posted pictures and I caught that!

[stopthekilling77]

tightened the timings from 5-5-5-15 down to what they're rated at 4-4-3-10 (checked and made sure it wasn't 12)
re-test results are:

"SiSoftware Sandra
Benchmark Results
RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 6612 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 6634 MB/s"

[Apoptosis]

1171MB/Sec better than when you started out tweaking this morning... That's a nice 21.47% improvement in memory bandwidth!