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Subject: Re: Since the CPU is what really count for Chess !

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:49:17 03/18/03

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On March 18, 2003 at 18:25:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 18, 2003 at 17:13:13, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On March 18, 2003 at 17:02:22, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>
>>>The motherboard is an Abit BP6. There's also 4-way interleaving on the Abit KT7,
>>>KT7a, BH6, Be6, Be6-2, BX6, BX6-2, etc. Tons and tons of boards support 2 & 4
>>>way. Also if I recall correctly it treats 1 dimm as "2" banks. Back in the day
>>>when enabling 4-way interleave with two Kingmax PC150 dimms (256mb per) I saw at
>>>least a 20% fps increase in Quake3. I still have the KT7a if you want me to run
>>>any tests.
>>
>>Makes sense. Why have a _DUAL_ inline memory module if it doesn't do
>>interleaving?
>>
>>-Tom
>
>
>How do you transfer > 8 bytes of data from one thing, with only enough pins to
>transfer
>8 bytes at once?

Well, let's see, because nobody said interleaving = > 8 bytes.

SIMMs are 32 bits. DIMMs are two SIMMs, and (not coincidentally) 64 bits. DIMMs
are interleaved SIMMs in one package. Get it?

-Tom



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