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You have a processor with more than eight threads, at same bus bandwidth, what do you choose, dual channeled or four channeled processor.

That number of threads will hit a bottleneck accessing only through to channels of memory.

I don't understand why you brought up the topic of single-threading in your response to the user, given that processors reached a frequency limit of 4 GHz, and 5 GHz with overclocking, a decade ago. This is why they increased the number of threads, but if they reduce the number of memory channels for consumer/desktop...



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