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To: Dave B who wrote (23239)	6/21/1999 11:20:00 PM
From: MileHigh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Agreed.

To: Dave B who wrote (23239)	6/22/1999 12:24:00 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

There's some Rambus coverage in the July issue of PC Computing (page 54). In their A-List section (subhead: Editor's Top Picks in Every Major Category) they have an entry for DRDRAM. In fact, it takes up half of the first page. It's incorrect in some places (in fact almost everything it says is wrong or misleading), but at least this time it's too positive. Here's the text: How It Works - DRDRAM Got a 550Mhz CPU? It doesn't mean much if your system RAM is causing a bottleneck. The next generation PCs (debuting later this year) will feature direct RAMbus dyname RAM (DRDRAM), which means RAM performance should triple -- at least. And the call-outs are: Clock Boost DRDRAM will feature a clock speed of up to 800Mhz. Plain old SDRAM currently runs at 100Mhz. Multiple Channels A DRDRAM controller can support more than one channel (each bank of RAM is a separate channel). Run four channels, and you've got a 6.4 GBps memory subsystem. Low Power DRDRAM runs at voltages as low as 1.8 volts (compared with 3.3 volts for SDRAM), drawing less power and making it ideal for use in portables. Wide Load DRDRAM's data path is two bytes instead of just one, allowing a maximum throughput of a whopping 1.6GBps. Couldn't sound much better than if unclewest had written it himself <G>. Or did you, uncle? Dave