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To: Charles R who wrote (90894)2/1/2000 2:22:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1572308
 
Chuck, CAS2 PC133 is about as tough to find as RDRAM. Plus, I really don't think the performance difference between CAS2 and CAS3 is very significant. It's probably as insignificant as the difference between Virtual Channel SDRAM and regular SDRAM. (Perhaps that's why all of the hype surrounding Virtual Channel and CAS2 has died down.)

I've always knew that PC133 would be just a stop-gap solution between PC100 and RDRAM (or DDR SDRAM). Athlon just isn't going to get a tangible performance boost from the chipset until they start supporting DDR, whenever that'll be.

Tenchusatsu



To: Charles R who wrote (90894)2/1/2000 6:24:00 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572308
 
There could be some enhancements along the way. I am also curious if these are CAS2 or CAS3 numbers.

Just about all PC-133 SDRAM is cas3, but cas2 is readily available, with almost no premiium in PC-100 area. So move to PC-133 is a lot less than it seems.

In Pentium area, moving form PC100 to 133 also means moving from BX chipset to inferior Via chipsets (memory access-wise)

Joe


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