How much of a performance hit using asymmetrical dual channel RAM?

Question

I have made some code in the past to check through text to find color codes that will change the color of the text. Ex:

Drawing this: Hello my name&b is john would give this as a result when drawn: Hello my name is john but "is john" would be in blue since i used the &b color code. I am basically imitating ansi but for java.

Now I would like to wrap the text exactly like LibGDX's BitMapFont.drawWrapped(...) but still use the color codes. Anyone know how to do this? I would probobly be able to figure it out eventually but I just wanted to know if there was a better way than mine.

Solution

The motherboard will fall back to single channel mode. See this TechSpot forum post: Dual Channel with 3 sticks of RAM... This is why a 6GB configuration is typically 2x2GB, 2x1GB.

However, as per the Wikipedia article on dual-channel architecture, depending on your applications, you may or may not experience a significant performance difference. Memory-heavy operations may be noticeably slower, but don't expect a very large difference.

Comments

[Moab]

Performance seems to vary..en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-channel_architecture#Perfor‌​mance

[vedi0boy]

wow thanks, instead of changing the color of the bitmap font, i have decided to just replace the color codes (&r, &b, etc) with the libgdx codes. Thanks a ton! Also can u change whether the text is bold or not?

[vedi0boy]

Nevermind doesn't really, matter, i decided not to use this finally. I'm working on an mmo and if people write an invalid hex code in chat it will make everyones game crash. I think I had something good going before. Thanks anyways!