I upgraded the RAM in the laptop I'm testing from 4GB 667MHz DDR2 to 4GB 800MHz DDR2.
It went from 85% load at 24 channels to 55%.
Just saying
I upgraded the RAM in the laptop I'm testing from 4GB 667MHz DDR2 to 4GB 800MHz DDR2.
It went from 85% load at 24 channels to 55%.
Just saying
That's not very surprising to me. One of the big issues Bob has talked about is that applications on Windows contend for the memory buss all the time, and as a real-time app, SAC fights that all the time. If you've got a faster memory buss, all that becomes less of an issue.
Really -- I suspect that once your processor is above a Pentium D, you get far more bang for the buck for SAC from getting a faster memory buss than you do from any CPU improvement.
Yup I agree with you guys, but I also know how often memory speed is overlooked, especially in the case of laptops.
I decided to post just so that anyone on a laptop host, who hasn't thought of checking, would get a heads up and maybe a nice little performance boost.
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