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To: kash johal who wrote (24286)7/8/1999 4:00:00 PM
From: J_W  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
Kash,

Now folks like IBM have stated that RDRAM doesn't buy anything over PC 133 memory.

Please post a link to this statement. I would like to know who said this and under what conditions there are no advantages.

Tom Pabst has tested camino with 800Mhz RDRAM and seen no appreciable performance gain.

We have discussed Tom Pabst's test results here in the past. His credibility rating is about a 2 on a scale of 10. Just read his bio. He makes no effort to hide his bias against Intel.

tomshardware.com

He seems to be more interested in overclocking than anything else. The fact that he has gone to school and become a medical doctor tells me that he is only interested in computers as a hobby.

He says his tests used the B0-stepping of the Camino chipset. He further states:

tomshardware.com

Please be aware of the fact that Camino is not optimized for the highest performance yet.

Now how much debug code is present in that version - who knows. Is this a good indicator of the finished product? Probably not. That is the crux of the problem facing all of us right now. There are no published creditable test results of Camino out yet. And we will probably not see any until the Intel Developers Forum Aug 31st. I believe anyone having a test Camino chipset also has signed a non-disclosure with Intel. If someone knows different, please correct me.

Regards,

Jim
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