tech-report.com
>>Finally, after sticking with its memory partner for quite a while, Intel saw fit to begin distancing itself from Rambus late last year. The two companies still work together, but Intel has slowly and deliberately begun pursuing an alternate course by making SDRAM chipsets available for the Pentium 4. Since then, much of the market has been waiting for the Pentium 4 to transition to a new, 478-pin socket—and, inevitably, away from RDRAM.<<
take a moment and flip through the various tests provided here (the verbage doesn't always appear to match the graphs, which is strange).
conclusion?
tech-report.com
>>For all the brouhaha over DDR versus Rambus, the real-world performance difference between the two technologies—at least with these chipsets—is statistically insignificant. Nonetheless, VIA's achievement with the P4X266 is striking. They've achieved performance parity with RDRAM, and with Intel's own native platform chipset<<
>>Given how well the 845 extracts bandwidth from PC133 SDRAM, we can't wait to see it paired up with PC2100 DDR memory when the time comes. Nevertheless, the 845 is poised for sales success now. It enables the Pentium 4 to take its place on corporate desktops [ed, whereas it CAN'T take its place with rmbs], where performance isn't paramount [ed, rmbs cost / benefit ratio sucks!], and competition from AMD and VIA isn't likely to present a problem.<<
tr, in the real world, people and companies don't 1. take risks with new technology and 2. pay significantly more money for statistically insignificant performance - their words, not mine.
economics contains some powerful precepts. ignore them at your own folly. |
