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To: Bilow who wrote (32776)	10/25/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: 840 dual bus advantage... Hi Carl, What did you think of the benchmarks at: sharkyextreme.com The review was clearly going out of its way to favor coppermine/rambus and it shows PC100 pretty much equal in performance to Rambus 800! Even PC133 should easily outperform Rambus 800 - and it sells for about half the price! Meanwhile Rambus looks forever limited to one open bank of memory (or less) - not enough for most users, and they might be having trouble getting that to work. If they re-did the packaging, could they get a 3 RIMM implementation under 10 cm? (if that's the problem) I guess this isn't really news - Dell let the rambus-doesn't-perform cat out of the bag a few months ago - but the expectation was that it would somehow "get better". What do you think of a board with 2 DDR266 memory channels and 2 of the dual Athlon modules? Taking advantage of the EV6 point to point bus - I suppose it would be best to interleave the two DDR266 busses to gain 4.4 GB/sec bandwidth. 4 CPUs, 4.4 GB/sec memory, not too expensive to produce. Uses cheap, high density, expandable memory. Should come in at about the price of a carmel motherboard with 2 coppermines and rambus - and more than double its performance. Dan