ganged or unganged?

Darkgundam111 · May 14, 2009

Should I have my 2X2gb ddr2 800mhz 4-4-4-12 run as ganged or unganged. Used for gaming.

BradleyKZN · May 14, 2009

Lol whats ganged and unganged?

slyfox2151 · May 14, 2009

Ganged im fairly sure,

unless your trying to overclock.

beyond_amusia · May 14, 2009

dual channel all the way (i assume you mean that by ganged)

largon · May 14, 2009

Ganged and unganged are both dual channel.

Ganged = optimal for single threaded apps.
Unganged = optimal for multithreading.

beyond_amusia · May 14, 2009

largon said:
Ganged and unganged are both dual channel.

Ganged = optimal for single threaded apps.
Unganged = optimal for multithreading.

Ah, ok. I'd never heard the terminology before, so I assumed wrongly. :eek:

Tatty_Two · May 14, 2009

So I would guess unganged for modern gaming as most modern games are optimised for at least 2 threads?

eidairaman1 · May 14, 2009

this reminds me of HT, only works when apps support it, Id say Ungange it for optimal performance.

iDont · May 14, 2009

IIRC, ganged means you'll have one wide 128-bit memory bus, while unganged provides 2x64bit memory buses (hence ganged is better for single threaded apps and unganged for threaded ones)

Darkgundam111 · May 14, 2009

so since modern games have more than one thread, would that mean unganged would work better?

erocker · May 14, 2009

Yes, run unganged. With unganged you get better read/write speeds on your RAM and better latencies.

Lethalrise750 · May 14, 2009

erocker said:
Yes, run unganged. With unganged you get better read/write speeds on your RAM and better latencies.

Darkgundam111 · May 14, 2009

hmmmm. well i guess ill go unganged and test it out a bit. do you need 4 sticks of ram to make unganged better? using a quad core here. also, since the XMS2 DHX has lifetime warranty, and it says that the ram voltage is tested to be 2.1, going over that would void my warranty?

erocker · May 14, 2009

Lethalrise750 said:
http://g.imagehost.org/0254/Ganged.png
http://g.imagehost.org/0462/unganged.png

Heh, guess I meant write/copy. I don't remember losing that much read with my system though.. :ohwell:

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