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To: Steve Lee who wrote (36436)10/13/2000 11:23:10 AM
From: stribe30  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Steve Lee claimed: "Not a misquote, those vendors I do business with have their own labs and benchmarks and don't just evaluate the P4. You are trusting the journalists too much. I say that as an owner of a national newspaper <vbg>."

Aces Hardware, Anandtech etc arent just journalists. They do their own benchmarks in their own labs and publish the results. The Athlon and Thunderbird come out on top.. plain and simple... you're thinking of an IT Technology reporting site like The Register.. these fellows arent reporting news from 3rd sources, they do the tests themselves.. and whether you like it or not.. the Thunderbird beats the P-III in most benchmark tests.. I can certainly send you the lniks to each and every hardware review site with those results if you dont want to believe me.
And if you have some so-called vendors results that say or show otherwise.. lets see them... I'd be happy to pass them along to Brian and Johan at Aces Hardware for their scrutiny.

"Rambus technology is also spoken of very highly amongst the big names in the PC industry. Expect AMD to announce RDRAM support in a chipset, if someone else doesn't produce an
Athlon/RDRAM chipset first. Again, don't believe what you see in the press."

Hmm.. and what naitonal newspaper do you own?

Again.. you havent been checking out hardware sites much apparently.. (but apparently you lump them into the "press" category.. which is erroneous). The grass-roots sites and their users are very hostile to Rambus and their attempt to control the DRAM industry and their attempt to monopolize memory use. The tests done on RDRAM so far also show how misleading Rambus has been on their claims on performance. When SDRAM-100 can top RDRAM in benchmarks, there's something not right with Rambus's claims.

Personally.. I dont care if AMD announces RDRAM support or not.. I would love to see a system myself.. just to see how it stacks up against conventional SDRAM as well as the upcoming DDR-SDRAM. However.. AMD has specifically said recently that among their customers.. there is little to no interest for an RDRAM solution.. the customers want focus on current SDRAM solutions or for the DDR SDRAM. RDRAM shows no performance advantage and still costs an arm and a leg to buy when compared to current SDRAM solutions.
The apparent enthusiasm for RDRAM by the way certainly doesnt extend to the DRAM makers.. I've read a Sept report on Real World Technologies that the majority of DRAM makers have backtracked completely on making RDRAM so that it now accounts for little in the picture of what they make.

"Good luck with your AMD investment... "

Again.. I dont invest.. I am a mere hardware person who reads the SI thread and keeps an eye on it for certain friends in the hardware site category in case something of interest pops up.. or else to refute disputable arguments such as what you've originally posted.
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