Adding more memory can slow down PCs

Firing Squad explains itself

By INQUIRER staff

Thu Oct 23 2003, 13:41

FIRING SQUAD has written a piece that claims adding memory to Pentium 4s will actually slow down machines.

You can find the article here.

This is part two of the site's series, Building the Ultimate High End Gaming Workstation, and basically what it says is that 865 and 875 Intel chipsets add more latency when more than two DIMMs are added to a board.

The site claims that the drop occurs to Athlon64 and 875 based machines, but only if the memory is unused. µ

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