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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (29651)	9/16/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Ten, KZ, others... (Clip) >...At the Intel Developer Forum (Sept 1st 1999 in Palm Springs, CA) Jay Bell, Senior Fellow of Dell Computer disclosed the first publicly released benchmark results for the Rambus/Camino platform. Though the results have yet to be independently verified, performance figures quoted by Mr. Bell generally indicate that under normal conditions, Rambus degrades the performance of Microsoft Office 2000 applications by an average of 25% as compared to PC100. Using a benchmark called Office Bench, Dell's engineers contrasted a BX chipset platform using 100MHz SDRAM against a Camino platform with 800MHz Direct Rambus. Other than DRAM and chip set, both systems were configured identically with 500MHz processors. The results in the charts and commentary below were graphically extracted from the original presentation material delivered at IDF. Black and white scans of the original charts are available....< Does this mean that the DELL specs we have seen and been talking about show a "slowdown" only when running Microsoft Office 2000? I'm lost???

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (29651)	9/16/1999 8:39:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: You're own words betray you. If the constraint is the video card... This shows up when running resolutions greater than 640x480. I can post link if you need them, but you'll probably recall having seen such information before, if you think about it. There is a lot of interest in the benchmark community regarding Nvidia'a new card, because it is hoped that this card will be able to exercise current and near term future processors (and memory subsystems) better. Dan