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To: Steve Porter who wrote (76865)	10/25/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578858

Re: "You 2 are clearly challenged.. who gives a fsck if you can pull 3.2GB/s from the RAM.. The FSB for Coppermine can only move around 1.1GB/s..(64 bits x 133mhz) so 2 channels is a TOTAL WASTE of MONEY!" You clearly know very little about memory architecture. Did you study under Ali chinney chin Chen? Memory transactions flow to/from AGP to memory, PCI to/from memory, and processor to/from memory. The chipset architecture allows concurrent memory operations. EP

To: Steve Porter who wrote (76865)	10/25/1999 3:24:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578858

<who gives a fsck if you can pull 3.2GB/s from the RAM.. The FSB for Coppermine can only move around 1.1GB/s..(64 bits x 133mhz) so 2 channels is a TOTAL WASTE of MONEY!> Steve, you're jumping to conclusions here. The 840 chipset has four sources of traffic: - FSB, 1.06 GB/sec - AGP-4x, 1.06 GB/sec - ICH (UDMA66, USB, PCI33/32-bit), 0.27 GB/sec - P64H (PCI66/64-bit), 0.53 GB/sec (This is the only thing that isn't featured on the 820.) Of course, the 3.2 GB/sec of RDRAM bandwidth is much more than the system could ever hope to consume. I've said that before. But even in a fully loaded system, practically no one is going to be starved out of the memory channel. And the PC133 chipsets out there is just going to be no match in pure performance (without regard to price, of course). Tenchusatsu