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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (76970)10/25/1999 11:07:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1577777
 
Petz, I agree with almost everything you say. It's not very often than all four sources of memory traffic in the 840 chipset are going to hit their maximum bandwidth consumption at the same time.

My argument, though, stems from the notion that one RDRAM channel is "just a teensy bit too little" for 840-based high-end workstations and low-end servers. Therefore, if the system is going to have Rambus anyway, it's a small jump from one channel to two.

But for most desktop apps, the memory bandwidth of 820 should be more than enough, as the benchmarks already show. Among all of the criticisms of Rambus, one of them surely isn't a lack of memory bandwidth.

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