JDN, <From what I gather at these levels increasing processor speed isnt the answer. What I want to know is the bus speed. When will Rambus be affordable, and if it isnt what is INTC going to do to get above the 100mh bus. speed.>
Well obviously Amdahl's Law comes into play here. Amdahl said basically that if you increase the performance of only one part of the system (the processor in this case), you'll approach diminishing returns with regard to overall system performance.
But as of now, both the Pentium III and the Athlon still has a lot of performance scalability left. Sure, going from 733 MHz to 800 MHz isn't going to net you as much of a performance benefit as going from 600 to 667, but there's still a benefit.
As for Rambus, well, my hope is that in about three or four months, we'll see Rambus prices drop considerably. If not, oh well, perhaps PC133 will fit the bill by then.
By the way, JDN. Intel's Pentium III is already on a 133 MHz bus speed. Yes, AMD's Athlon has a 200 MHz bus speed, but most of that is wasted because Athlon-based systems are stuck with PC100 memory.
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