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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (100468)3/28/2000 1:56:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1576346
 
Doug, answers to your questions:

<Do you take away the validity of these benchmarks? [Overclocked 440BX vs. 820]>

I don't consider those benchmarks to be valid, because an overclocked 440BX is running the SDRAM so far out of spec that it cannot be shipped in that manner. I checked this with a few coworkers, who confirmed this for me. They tried the same thing that Tom did with less success (in stability) than Tom claimed to achieve.

<Do you expect the 815 to outperform Tom's overclocked BX solution?>

No. If it does, however, that would totally change my opinion of Rambus as a viable technology.

<If the 815 does out perform the BX (and therefor the 820) wouldn't this also replace the 820 chipset?>

Probably. If 815 outperforms 820, all of the OEMs will build systems around the 815 and reject the 820. As a result, Intel will no longer have a market for the 820 chipset, and will drop it sooner or later.

<If it does become the high end consumer chipset, do you think they'll make a revision of it that doesn't have integrated graphics?>

I don't know. Certainly the integrated graphics would become excess baggage for systems that feature their own AGP controllers. Assuming the "excess baggage" doesn't impact AGP performance any (it better not), I'd say 815 would become a perfect "one size fits all" chipset. Intel wouldn't have to make two different versions of 815 to support two different markets.

<I'm curious if you think they'll be persuing a DDR chipset for the willamete? (contrary to announcments that it will only use rambus)>

Intel already announced DDR SDRAM support for Foster, the server version of Willamette. I have no idea whether Intel has plans for DDR in desktops and workstations, which is where Willamette is targeted.

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