Re: AMD64-based laptops from HP/Compaq are crippled

From: Ed Light (nobody_at_nobody.there)
Date: 07/05/05 

Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 21:29:26 -0700

"NoNoBadDog!" <no_@spam_verizon.net> wrote

> Since they are shipping with DDR and not DDr2, what would be the purpose
> of enabling the dual channel?

My dual channel AMD gets a bit less than twice the memory speed in memtest86
when running dual channel.

No AMD runs DDR2.

Why they would disable dual channel I don't know. Since they can completely
configure the pc with compatible memory, it doesn't make sense, unless they
randomly throw whatever cheap memory they can find into it. Then it figures. 

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