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To: Bilow who wrote (108)9/23/1999 10:31:00 AM
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Nice story, Carl. RE: <So the factory solution was to detect when someone was pounding too hard on memory, and, in that event, reduce the system clock speed. Wonder if anyone has thought of doing something similar with RDRAM. The controller would automatically get an idea of the chip's temperature since it is supposed to measure this regularly.>

I think that's essentially what happens in Rambus excep that it's not the clock speed which is varied. The controller in the chip set is responsible for instructing the rdrams to go in and out of the various power reduced modes. I haven't figured out yet if the controller algorithm is hard or soft (ie, loaded by the bios). Maybe someone could explain this.
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