I don't think 440FX do interleave of memory. So it doesn't matter.
-- QZ
> "Prophete J. Charles" wrote:
>
> I am sure this question has been asked before, but here goes. On an Intel 440FX
>dual Pentium pro motherboard, what
> would be the best configuration for 128MB of RAM? Since the board has 4 banks, would
>it be better to:
> a - have 4 banks all populated with 32MB each
> b - have 2 banks populated with 64MB each
> Now this would be for smp kernel 2.2.xx
>
> The real question is what is the memory bandwidth of a 440FX chipset. I know for my
>DEC alpha machine, due to the
> larger memory bandwidth, the best configuration is (a), but for this machine, I
>don't know.
>
> Prophete J. Charles
>
>
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