What's better 2-32meg or 1-64meg

[smoorman]

What is faster 2- 32 meg mem chips or 1- 64 meg chip? Does having more connectors move data faster or isn't that the bottleneck?

[Nathan]

I don't think there will be a noticeable difference with one over the other. However, what is important is having only one 64 MB chip and have the other slot open just in case you want to add another 64 MB chip in the future.

[mallen]

1 64 MB stick leaves you more room for expansion.

[Keeper1]

If you have the SDRAM slots to spare though, you might consider the fact that if one stick goes bad, 2x32 is better than 1x64.

[alan]

for speed reasons 1 stick is better as the cpu has only to address the one dimm slot
but we are only talking about 1 or 2 ns difference when the cpu address's 2 or 1 dimm
in the end its up to you
with 1x64 and 1x32 in mine i get 139.8 norton benchmark and with 1x64 i get 142.4
norton reads memory access speeds for its benchmark process
both sticks are seimens pc66 running @ 100mhz
alan