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| | The Dual-Channel Revolution |
 | | The memory controller, the interface between the CPU and system memory, is part of the Northbridge portion of the motherboard chipset. |
 | | On the negative side, a single-channel memory controller becomes a performance bottleneck when it can't keep up with the CPU bus, leaving the processor to waste clock cycles with nothing to process. |
 | | The concept is almost one of "reduce, recycle, reuse," in that it turns older, slower, and cheaper memory into an up-to-date speed demon by adding a second, parallel memory pathway. |
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