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No it wont strain it. When talking pc's up to recently we had one ch mem not duel. So it just runs as a single ch. like most others do anyhow. When like this- It actually has to fully use dimm1 before it uses dimm2.
Example-
Think of it as a empty jar. When you have one-and its full, it simply dumps out what water isnt needed right now.
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When data fills it up- it picks what data hasent been used lately and dumps it just like the water in jar example. This makes room for more recently and currently needed data. wheres the dumped data go? On your slower hdd Virtual memory. Remember not recently needed so its not a problem if you have like 512mb of ram these days. Meaning this cycle wont hurt your performance. The second stick of mem is used if the first is full= it goes on to second filling it, then does the mem dump to vm deal again when/if filled up. Think of this simply as having two jars instead of one. Each jar is no more or less strained due to being filled with water. So neither is the mem chips by being filled with data.
In duel its x2 this. On Nvidia Nforce2 chipset it guesses with second controler I dont know about Intels. havent followed their duel ddr ch mem chips. Anyone know if its like their cpu's and relys heavily on prediciton or is it diff then how NF2 does it? If it does then it might help somtimes mroe then others. Seeing how Intel is bandwidth hungry. THats if it doesnt rely on predicting the data needed.
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