NOT OT
Did anybody notice following from JC:
* Willamette, according to the article, has a 32-bit bus. If this is true (and that's a BIG if), it is an astonishing revelation. Willamette has a 100MHz, quad pumped bus, giving it a total data rate of 400MT/s. In comparison, Athlon Classic has a 100MHz, double pumped bus, giving it a total data rate of 200MT/s. Which makes Willamette seem very impressive, no? (the answer to this question is "Yes, very much so, Mr. JC") But if Willamette has a 32-bit wide quad pumped bus and Athlon Classic a 64-bit wide double pumped bus, then the "400MHz" Willamette bus would actually be equivalent (neither inferior nor superior) to the "200MHz" Athlon Classic bus. Hmm ... anybody with better clarification than this, could you send me word? Perhaps they're incorrect? Remember, this rather interesting bit of news, if not an EE Typo, would possibly mean that the "266MHz" AMD760 has a faster bus (in both throughput and latency?) than the "400MHz" ... er, whatever Intel calls their chipset.
Edit: I've been informed that one of Intel's Willamette pdfs does state rather straight out that the bus is 64-bits wide. More on this later, I guess
Now, it would be interesting if Willy bus was only 32 bit.
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