Anarki_Hunter: I only noted down observation from Prologue, I currently do not have my GB's of older saves.. (cleared them all when the size crossed 8 GB's or something).
Checking it in other locations will require me to play a bit more after completing prologue.
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Running
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE C3 revision@2.7Ghz_0.9875volts (under clocked)
AMD HD6950 (Cat 11.6 + CAT 11.6 CAP3 drivers)
1GBx4 slots_DDR2 800 Mhz RAM 4-4-4-12 timings (Unganged mode)
(Unganged mode = dual channel memory modes to use 2x64 bits bandwidth instead of a single 128 bandwidth; I didn't prefer the idea of just using a single 128 bit lane and sacrifice an extra clock for different fetch operation in queue.
Or
thou this is a rumor..it might also translate into each core in the quad configuration getting exponential access to a single RAM stick in the slot_in my case, I cannot confirm this as I do not think its worth my time to intensely look into this case)
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It's the former. Unganged mode means the two memory controllers are independent and can have two 64-bit memory accesses to different sticks working at the same time. Ganged mode means they work together and issue only one 128-bit access at a time. In theory, unganged mode is faster when you have a random-ish load generated by a lot of threads. In practice, the difference is small.
It doesn't mean that any core has preferential access to any RAM. That's a more complex architecture called NUMA, which AMD also supports, but is normally used only on servers that run programs optimized for it.
