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To: Petz who wrote (99673)	3/23/2000 11:23:00 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574595

Petz, I keep waiting on the next part, I'll never get my Athlon system running. asus.com.tw ASUS KX133 boards, run pc100 or pc133 steve

To: Petz who wrote (99673)	3/24/2000 12:10:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574595

The actual clock speed of this "600 MHz" RAM is 533 MHz (not kidding!). Since RDRAM has a 16 bit (2 bytes) bus width, it can do 1066 MB/sec peak. The lowly $99 128M PC133 stick I bought last week has a 64 bit (8 bytes) bus that operates at 133 MHz. Its peak bandwidth of 133*8 is also 1066 MB/sec peak, exactly the same as that expensive "600 MHz" RDRAM The actual clock speed of this "600 MHz" RAM is 533 MHz (not kidding!). Since RDRAM has a 16 bit (2 bytes) bus width, it can do 1066 MB/sec peak. Petz, I thought the intent of the narrower channel of the RDRAM (16 bus width) was to make RDRAM faster....so even at 533 MHz the RDRAM should beat your pc133 stick that runs at MHz. Why doesn't it? BTW thanks for the response. ted

To: Petz who wrote (99673)	3/24/2000 12:34:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574595

Petz - RE: "RAMBUS purists will claim that with RDRAM the peak bandwidth is more likely to be reached in real applications with complex addressing patterns. Maybe so, and maybe not, because RDRAM's latency (delay until you get the first bit of the data) is worst than even PC100 memory." Well gaaaawleeee Petz, since DRDRAM is such a GREAT product that has made all other DRAM useless, a company is giving away a 64MB stick of PC100 RAM for FREE, yes, you read that right, FREE!!! All they have to do is plunk down ONLY $1000 for 128MB of DRDRAM! If you separate the costs of the two RAMs, the price of the 128MB DRDRAM drops to ONLY ~$950!!! Doesn't that just make you want to click on over to this link below? You get can get overpriced DRDRAM that barely outperforms SDRAM that costs 1/10 as much! Don't you just love how royalties, low yields, and added costs such as a heatsink can raise the cost of RAM? I bet this company will get zillions of orders! mushkin.com