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    Should I buy an extra 2gb for my G73JH-05 for Dual Channel?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by thauch, Apr 6, 2010.

  1. thauch

    thauch Notebook Consultant

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    I was doing some reading and not having luck finding out how the HM55 chipset works. Are 2 of the dimm's running in dual-channel and the other in single? Should I get another 2gb dimm to put all of them in dual channel? (Hopefully that makes sense.)

    I really don't need another 2gb (don't even get close to the 6gb now) but would be happy knowing all the ram is running dual channel.

    Newegg has the DDR3 1333mhz ram I need. (Got lucky and mine came with 1333.)
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139049

    HWInfo says my model numbers are ASU1333D3S9DR8
    Newegg's is KVR1333D3S9

    Any thoughts?
     
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    thauch Notebook Consultant

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    No comments yet?
     
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    Yuxi Notebook Consultant

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    I don't have solid data on the top of my head, but everything I've read suggests that running dual channel (and the difference between 1066 and 1333, for that matter) provides negligible benefit in real-world applications (they give a slight bonus in memory bandwidth benchmarks, but that's about it).
     
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    Its actually not even worth it, you will not be getting any performance boost even in bandwidth if the memory is not in use. Look in your Manuel and you will find an illustration describing that to obtain the most performance place the stick in dimm slot 1, 3 and 2. Even if the last Dimm is not in dual channel your other ones are; for this reason you should not buy the extra ram.
     
    googlei, Apr 6, 2010
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