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To: Scumbria who wrote (24078)	7/2/1999 12:29:00 AM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria thanks for the reply. I'm trying to get a handle on all of my research. Too much invested. Kind of put the cart before the horse. But in regards to your reply then I would assume the following taken from another site would be in agreement with you: <The only advantage to D-RDRAM would be to pack more channels on the same motherboard real estate. D-RDRAM is a low signal swing differential 16 bit bus and thus requiring 32 lines as opposed to the 64 (+lots of ground) of the PC133 DRAM. However board layout @ 800MHz is VERY challenging. The D-RDRAM probably has an edge in bandwidth but inferior latency as compared to PC133. It will be interesting to see how double data rated PCxxx DRAMs will perform. That is if the challenges in board layout will compromise the performance (bandwidth).>

To: Scumbria who wrote (24078)	7/2/1999 12:53:00 AM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, Some of what I am reading indicates heavy pressure from AMD (I've read some of your posts on the AMD thread). What's your take on the following: <Athlon is tauted as multi capable, which means an 8 way Athlon 600, with 200MHz FSB and LightWave would be an absolute rage! Athlon (on paper) does make the PIII "Coppermine" (Socket 370) look a little insipid, and that's compounded by the fact Intel in their capitalist shortsighedness (they invested heavily in Rambus Corp) refuses to move to PC133 SDRAM and will not support it. That leaves us with PC100 SDRAM, PC400 RDRAM, PC600 RDRAM and maybe PC784 RDRAM - problem is that all of those RAMs are 100MHz. VIA, ALI and AMD are going have a field day with the 200MHz~400MHz FSB motherboards for Athlon, using RDRAM and PC100 and PC133 SDRAM. Finally, if AMD can only get yield up and distribution and pricing right, they have a chance, for the first time to deliver "power to the people", rendering power to LightWavers through superior FPU, and give Intel something of a bashing in the market place until the IA32 "Willamette" CPU comes out in late 2000, by which time AthlonII will be out using EV7 etc.... this is AMD's real and only chance at this and I hope they do it properly.>