carL:
Never mind the 256/128 comparisons. Try registered DDR DIMM's on for size.
I posted today's Intel's endorsement as of mid April of JEDEC's standard for registered DDR DIMMs. Now I got a link for AMD using registered DDR DIMMs for the 760MP chipset. You know Scumbria thinks that only the AMD 760 chipset is the only DDR chipset worth buying.
Now that you can gloat for several months with your fraud squaking; try to be magnanimous and use a fair meaningful comparison of next generation DRAM. Do Intel and AMD usage of registered DIMM count in your book as having a role in PC's. I still stick to my assertion that RDRAM will be within 20% of SDRAM by Sep and similar in price to registered DDR with all that glue on DIMM.
john
theinquirer.net
Athlon dual mobos: 1.8GHz a gogo
Exclusive: It's Guinnesses all round
By Mike Magee, 10 May 2001 16.50 BST
SOURCES CLOSE TO AMD in Taiwan have given us sight of many of the features of the Athlon 760MP (multiprocessing) chipset.
And very interesting reading it makes for too. The Tyan Thunder K7 mobo, which supports dual Athlon H-series microprocessors, offering up to 2.1GB/s per CPU, supports four PC2100 registered DIMMs, ECC scrubbing, 4X AGP Pro, on board SCSI, two network interface cards and on board graphics. One of its nicest features is its codename - Guinness.
The Thunder K7 Guinness mobo (cheers) includes a dual independent bus per CPU and a separate path for so-called snoop traffic.
The Athlon H-Series includes SSE+, which may or may not be called 3DNow! Pro, and extensions to the instruction set include Intel Screaming Sindie 1 and 2 single and double precision floating point instructions. AMD will continue to support 3DNow, even in Hammer, when it arrives.
Developers will be able to choose between AMD and Intel 3D instruction in either Screaming Sindies or 3DNow, but the H Series of Athlons can run with fully optimised code.
Preliminary benchmarketing seen by The Inquirer show an 80 per cent boost in Photoshop 5.5 and 6.0 lighting effects, and the 3D StudioMax Heidi Renderer is something like 34 per cent up.
The inclusive L2 cache on the H series gives a much bigger boost to the processor, according to the source, and other features, including hardware pre-fetching, mean routine speed boosts in many apps. The architecture of the chipset means that the thing is also software prefetch instruction aware.
The power supply is actually 460 watts, not 450 watts as we previously reported, and couple of suppliers are likely to be ready at launch date.
The document we saw mentions Palominos running at 1.8GHz but 1200MHz and 1400MHz Palominos are also in the frame. Heatsinks suitable for the 1200MHz Palominos will probably be fine with the higher frequencies.
Firms able to supply the DDR memory will include Hynix, Micron, Tosh and Samsung, and smaller companies such as Dataram.
There is hope on the horizon for a power supply that runs at 350 watts by year end. The on board video is likely to be ATI Rage XL. We'll have more on these major developments later. µ
InqBlot 666 According to Guinness.com, the water used to clean Pentiums in Ireland and that then ends up in a pint of Guinness does not add anything to the taste of the beer. According to Intel officials, it tastes better. |
