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Intel with Turbo Boost and 1 DIMM or 2

XENOPHON22 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:22:32 +0000

I am looking to buy a new laptop in the coming months. I see that some are coming with processors rated at lower speeds but have Turbo Boost. Does anyone have any thoughts as to how effective this is?

Also, is there any difference between 1 stick of RAM at 2G or 2 sticks at 1G?

I see there is a lot of stuff online but I was hoping to see if anyone here had experience to chime in with.

Thanks

8GB DIMMS for AMD Shanghai?

Gunslinger — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:57:50 +0000

Any idead when 8GB DIMMS will be available for Shanghai processors?

Why do DIMM cards fail so often in servers

Jim4522 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:18:27 +0000

Recently I have been doing a study of the rate of failure of server components. It probably won’t shock anyone that the most failing component is the disk drive given its electrical/mechanical nature. What I do find surprising is that running a very close second are DIMM memory cards. I would assume that they are completely electronic and therefore should be fairly high on the reliability scale but they are not. The disk drives average a failure every 500 plus months of server use and the DIMM cards are approximately 1000 months between failures which is only twice as good as disk drives. Does anyone have an idea as to why DIMM cards would be so failure prone? Jim White