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To: Charles R who wrote (84290)	6/23/1999 10:13:00 AM
From: grok	Respond to of 186894

RE: "KZ, <However, this does contradict two anecdotal reports, one by Tigerpaw and one by someone on Rambus thread, who say that they've observed systems side-by-side, drdram vs sdram, and drdram looked faster.> Looks like you are an engineer and, if so, I am sure you agree that this kind of reporting is fraught with perils. Only benchmarks I trust are the ones that have a good methodology or if I have a lot of faith in the benchmarking skills of the person reporting. Chuck" Sure you've always got to be careful in trusting early reports but Tom could be the one with the bogus report. I'm just urging caution until we've got several reliable reports that match. Actually, if you've been following closely recently, I had been pounding away on Intel's "Sky dive toward Rambus on the Desktop" with Coppermine which I claimed was going to be a disaster unless Intel allowed an sdram solution. This has been made moot due to Coppermine delay. During the second half of this year we'll now see Rambus compares head-to-head with sdram on PIII systems and see if anyone chooses to bring Rambus systems to market. The anecdotal evidence seemed to be coming from people involved in bring PIII/Rambus systems to market so it will be interesting to see how they fair. On the Rambus thread people claim that the Coppermine delay doesn't hurt Rambus at all since everyone will switch to PIII+Camino+drdram due to higher performance. Soon we will see. Oh, I guess Scumbria gets up earlier than I thought.