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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (104252)6/9/2000 2:50:00 AM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Tenchusatsu,

Most of the performance benchmark comparisons out there pair up the GHz Pentium III with an 820/RDRAM platform. Meanwhile, the Athlon is still stuck with PC133 SDRAM.

I think Tony was talking more in terms of practical use than the theoretical < 1% lead of one processor over another. If you upgrade to 1 GHz CPU, be it Intel or AMD, you will get a lot more powerful machine (maybe 100% faster) than what you currently have, and the +/- 1% is not going to make than much difference, except some bragging rights.

Intel's mistake isn't necessarily supporting RDRAM in the first place. Intel's mistake was not having an alternative SDRAM platform available.

I don't know which memory standard will win eventually, but I think the mistake Intel made was to commit to Rambus too early, before Rambus was ready for prime time. I think Intel should have waited for Rambus to prove itself in other devices, before bringing it to main memory of a PC.

Joe
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