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To: Road Walker who wrote (131234)3/30/2001 9:23:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
John,

This was my first post on the Intel thread wrt RDRAM:

To:William Triplett who wrote (69049)
From: Scumbria Tuesday, Nov 24, 1998 2:11 AM
Respond to of 131298

William,
The only real value that DRDRAM offers on a motherboard is a narrow datapath, which lowers manufacturing costs. It will do little for CPU performance, and probably nothing for graphics performance. Graphics performance is largely limited by the speed of the AGP bus, so high bandwidth memory will be choked off.

AGP 4X will help graphics performance considerably.

Scumbria


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Here are my other RDRAM posts through mid-June 2000:

I still haven't figured out why anybody cares about RDRAM on the motherboard. I wish that someone could explain the theory behind it's benefits.

Typically, a microprocessor bursts data in and out 32 bytes at a time. Attaching RDRAM to a microprocessor is like using a train to deliver the family groceries two blocks away. It starts slowly, and most of it's capacity is never used.

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Scumbria
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