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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (34966)7/22/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (2) of 1573092
 
Paul, you are confusing few things.

<today the Pentium II is a better chip than the K6.>
You are confusing here a CPU and a system. We were talking
about CPU core performance, and my point was that
the P-II core is exhausted while the K6 core will
show up with apropriate support from the system.

It was Intel intention to limit Socket7 features
to separate it from PPro/PII/Slot1 segment.
They made Socket7 systems artificially inferior than
they could be and took a significant chunk of system
on PPro chip implementing non-blocking L2 cache.
Clear example - lousy 64 MB cacheability limit on the
top Intel 430TX chipset. AMD had to play this
game initially to penetrate the market.

<You stated there WAS NO IMPROVEMENT using
SDRAMs - and when you were proven wrong you had to
twist things>
What you are talking about? Who proved me wrong? You?
Any website will show you that there was virtually
no improvement in system-level benchmarks when switching
from old 440FX to 440LX SDRAM boards. There is only one
synthetic benchmark (STREAM) you stuck with where
huge but primitive vector operations are exercised.
So what? This artificial type of data pattern is not
used in business application in any significant
quantities, and that's why there is no visible gain
in overall system performance between EDO and SDRAM.
The same goes for 66-to-100MHz move on P-II platform
with 440Lx to BX chips.

Speaking about industry switching to "more expensive"
SDRAM, you are wrong here again. That was a matter
of scale of production. If you check today's prices,
64MB of SDRAM is cheaper than EDO. The reason for
industry to switch was easier handling of just one
piece of DIMM memory rather than dealing with two
72-pin SIMMs, plus connectors, plus extra tracing...

<YOU ARE STILL WRONG !> Let me suggest here something.
I see you are trying to make you right by shouting
your point in bigger letters. If you could use html
switches to even bigger fonts, maybe it will make you
more right? Look at any html source to figure out which
control characters to use :-)
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