128mb in a single stick -v- 32 mb in a bank of four
I was helping a friend update her computer recently, increasing the RAM as she was using some high demand graphics programs. We ended up with a single stick of 128mb RAM left over (wasn't compatible with the newer RAM we put into her computer).
Her husband uses a very clunky P2, which had 32mb of RAM in four banks of 8mb. Thinking I was making the best use of what was available, I removed the four 8mb RAM sticks and replaced them with the single 128mb stick.
A friend has now told him that the 128 mb, because it is in a single stick, is actually slower than the 32 mb in a bank of four sticks.
Is this so?