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Quad<br />

Channel<br />

Mode<br />

Dual<br />

Channei<br />

Mode<br />

1,567<br />

1,584<br />

0 800 1,600<br />

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE<br />

I saw virtually no difference in our encoding test between dual-channel and<br />

quad-channel RAM.<br />

<strong>PC</strong>Mark 8 Creative<br />

My next task was <strong>PC</strong>Mark 8’s Creative Conventional test. This<br />

synthetic test attempts to simulate a workload of photo editing,<br />

video encoding, light gaming, and browsing. I run the conventional<br />

portion rather than the GPU portion to keep the workload restricted<br />

to the CPU itself. The result was, again, pretty surprising and<br />

disappointing.<br />

<strong>PC</strong>Mark Creative Conventional<br />

Quad<br />

Channel<br />

Mode<br />

Dual<br />

Channei<br />

Mode<br />

5,389<br />

5,397<br />

0 3,000 6,000<br />

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE<br />

<strong>PC</strong>Mark 8’s Creative Conventional test shows minimal impact too.<br />

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