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To: Alan Bell who wrote (29267)	9/11/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 93625

Re: Last night, I did a similar analysis to the one you posted... And it appears that made the same mistake. NAP is not a useable mode for an in-use computer. There is speculation that using STBY mode is the reason for the terrible Dell benchmarks on the AMD/INTC/RMBS thread. Going to NAP would reduce performance to untenable levels. According to Samsung docs, the chip is normally in STBY when not drawing full power, not NAP (see page 38 in usa.samsungsemi.com. On page 46 it shows an NAP exit delay adding an additional 50+40=90ns to the latency delay. OUCH! Going to NAP at every opportunity will make your Coppermine 733 equal in performance to about a Pentium 266. But you will be using a little less power than PC100 that way. I'm afraid that low power consumption is not going to be a rambus selling point. Dan