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To: richard surckla who wrote (24076)	7/1/1999 11:48:00 PM
From: Glenn Norman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Yo_Richard................Can you give us a link to the site, please? RE: Found this on another site: Q. What is the point to have 800mhz Rambus but the system bus only run 133mhz..?? Salude and good July 4 holiday to all! - Norman

To: richard surckla who wrote (24076)	7/2/1999 12:12:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Richard, It is true that DRDRAM offers little advantage on a traditional motherboard configuration. The advantage appears in systems where multiple channels to memory can be utilized. An obvious choice for this is in graphics subsystems, which will be among the first to utilize the extremely high bandwidth capabilities of multi-channel DRDRAM systems. Scumbria

To: richard surckla who wrote (24076)	7/2/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: Alan Hume	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Richard, is that Q /A thing you dug out FUD ? or am I missing something? Alan

To: richard surckla who wrote (24076)	7/2/1999 4:48:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

<Tom Pabst has just revealed that the "advantage" Rambus has over PC100 is essentially zero and that its "advantage" over PC133 is in fact negative.> Here's a link to Tom's preview of the Camino chipset, the first to use DRDRAM: www5.tomshardware.com While Tom's review is pretty discouraging, remember that this is most likely a pre-release version of Camino, and that the final production version could have different results. The preview of Camino reminds me of another little episode. Herr Uberclockermeister (Paul Engel's nickname for Tom) once ran a preview of a pre-production version of Klamath (a.k.a. Pentium II, 233-300 MHz), and said that performance was lackluster. (See www5.tomshardware.com Intel was pretty upset that Tom did such a thing, and relations between Tom and a few Intel representatives became tense for a while. In the end, when the Klamath finally hit the market as Pentium II, performance was much better than what Tom originally predicted. Same thing could happen with Camino. I think the performance benefit of DRDRAM is very dependent on the memory controller (i.e. the Camino chipset). It's possible that the version Tom tested with had performance features turned off for debug purposes. If that's the case, then we just saw the bottom limit of Camino's performance with 800 MHz DRDRAMs, and actual performance can only go up from here. Tenchusatsu

To: richard surckla who wrote (24076)	4/23/2001 12:18:26 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 93625

Richard, The smartest thing you ever said, ummm, quoted: Tom Pabst has just revealed that the "advantage" Rambus has over PC100 is essentially zero and that its "advantage" over PC133 is in fact negative. This is probably why Intel is furiously sueing VIA for trying to sell PC133-compliant chipsets. (Tom's comparison is for standard desktop PCs. Rambus probably will have an advantage when used with 8-way SMP server boxes and also for the legendary but extremely rare super-multimedia boxes with streaming video going in 7 different directions simultaneously.) I do have one good thing to say for Rambus: a PC memory system built around D-RDRAM does have a low pin count.