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Comment by NikkiA

8 months ago

The RAM speed comes from the 512bit wide bus, not the direct connection. If motherboard makers were to support quad or octa channel interfaces, PCs would be just about as fast.

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dietr1ch  8 months ago

RAM throughput comes from a wide bus, but I think that nowadays memory access latency is getting pretty important to keep the CPUs working.

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