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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

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To: Scumbria who wrote (39783)	4/13/2000 10:04:00 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) of 93625

Scumbria, the Dell B Series 866Mhz system with 128M RDRAM turned in equivalent scores as 3 Athlon 1Ghz systems (2 with 256M SDRAM and 1 with 128M SDRAM). Exactly my point. PIII performs better than Athlon, because PIII has an onboard L2 which provides lower memory latency. The key word here is "latency". Now I'm confused. I thought your point was: "Faster CPUs will generally produce higher benchmark scores than slower CPUs, regardless of other system issues." Regardless, my point is that it's more of a PR issue now. If benchmarks had shown that there was absolutely no benefit to the PIII/RDRAM combo, as many of the anti-RDRAM crowd claimed, then we'd be dead in the water. But they haven't -- in fact they appear to show a distinct advantage (especially the PC World results). Whether it's L2 cache or RDRAM or the 820 chipset is immaterial -- the average customer buys a "package" and the PIII/RDRAM "package" is looking good. Hopefully, Rambus and the interested PC mfrs. will milk these results for all they can get. Dave

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