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To: Don Green who wrote (30030)9/20/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: Dave B  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
Don,

Oh, yeah, thank you!!!

Here's from page 4 of the gotapex review...

While I don't expect later drivers to increase the performance as much as these do, there's probably still alot of headroom for improvement. The i820 product will be a success, I have absolutely no doubt.

Amen!

Dave



To: Don Green who wrote (30030)9/20/1999 11:15:00 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
gotapex.com

At this point, I can not, in good conscience recommend the i820 motherboard. If I was putting together a system for myself, I'd grab an AMD system, no question about it. Does that make me an AMD fanatic? Nope, not at all. It's simply the best product at this given time, at all the given price points, where I'm apt to make my purchase.

When the Coppermine CPUs come out, this may all change. Perhaps the improved cache will be able to overcome the shortcomings of Rambus's high latency. Perhaps they'll be able to build CPU's at far higher Mhz.



To: Don Green who wrote (30030)9/21/1999 9:41:00 AM
From: dumbmoney  Respond to of 93625
 
Finally some real (or at least, not obviously bogus) benchmarks. Rambus is showing the expected (tiny) performance increase, not a decrease.

Looks like the QuakeIII speedup is 3-6%, adjusting for 550/533 clock speed difference.