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To: Dan3 who wrote (32770)	10/25/1999 1:11:00 AM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 93625

When we see it Dan. When we see it.

To: Dan3 who wrote (32770)	10/25/1999 1:39:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Dan3; Most of the advantage that the 840 chip set provides is the dual memory channels. When you use the chip with SDRAM (which I believe uses that little conversion chip), you get also get the advantage of two memory channels. So that is why RDRAM is looking relatively sweet on the 840. The system to comapre it to would be one that had two SDRAM memory channels. That too, would have double bandwidth, double mother board area etc. -- Carl

To: Dan3 who wrote (32770)	10/25/1999 2:38:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Dan, <There is virtually no benefit from rambus. None.> Take another look at the benchmarks. There is quite a measurable difference on a lot of the benchmarks between Cumine 733 on 820/RDRAM and Cumine 700 on 440BX/SDRAM. (7.5% on Expendable, 8.5% on Quake 2, 6.6% on Quake 3, 9.7% on Graphics Winmark99, 6.4% on 3D Winbench T&L, etc.) This difference cannot be attributed to the increase in core or FSB speeds alone, or even a combination of the two. Coppermine at higher frequencies definitely benefits from Rambus. You might also want to focus on these two benchmarks, shown on this page: sharkyextreme.com You can see that a Cumine 667 on 820/RDRAM beats a Cumine 700 on 440BX on SSE-enabled applications like Adobe Photoshop and Naturally Speaking. Of course, if you want to look at RDRAM vs. PC133 VC-SDRAM, you could always check out the tests run by Tom "Intel is Dr. Evil and I'm Austin Powers" Pabst, where a 733 MHz Coppermine shows no differences between 820/RDRAM and VIA's Apollo Pro 133+ chipsets. But don't bother telling me again that there is no difference between 820/RDRAM and 440BX/SDRAM, because you're wrong. Tenchusatsu