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To: Scumbria who wrote (47102)	1/23/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) of 1571687

Re: "AMD will have to thank Intel for pushing direct RDRAM, because K7 seems to be the first CPU that will really need it The reality is that no CPU needs DRDRAM. CPU's burst data in and out 32 bytes at a time. That is not enough data to get any benefit out of high bandwidth memory. The only real advantage of DRDRAM over SDRAM is a smaller pin count. High bandwidth is needed for graphics, not CPU's. The whole Intel/Rambus connection is little more than a marketing ploy." You just stated that high bandwidth is useful for graphics. PIII is designed to offer enhanced 3D graphics capability and it will reside on a motherboard with an AGP 4X port. This will require high memory bandwidth to both the CPU and the AGP port. There is also a PCI bus that has it's own needs. Why are you only thinking about the CPU? EP

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