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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (39625)	4/11/2000 5:25:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Ten, What advantages do you see for DRDRAM over DDR on a motherboard? Scumbria

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (39625)	4/12/2000 2:02:00 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Tenchusatsu, Seems like Rambus could also be a year ahead of its time, even after all of the delays and the current supply problems. I was going to reply to Ali with the following information, but your quote matched part of the article, so here it is... As if the PC Magazine benchmarks weren't enough, PC World has now also published benchmarks on 866Mhz/1GHz systems. And the winner on the PC Worldbench test is (drum roll, please).... the IBM Aptiva S Series GZ...only 1 of 2 PIII/RDRAM based systems in the test. Here's the table they present: System CPU RAM (MB) L2 Cache Score IBM Aptiva S GZ PIII-1000 128 256K 165 GW Select 1000 Ath-1000 256 512K 157 Dell XPS B-866 PIII-866 128 256K 156 CPQ Presario 5900Z Ath-1000 256 512K 154 Cybermax K7-850 ATh-1000 128 512K 153 GW Select 850 Ath-850 128 512K 150 CPQ Presario 5900Z Ath-850 128 512K 139 Note that the Dell XPS B 850 came in third by one point against an Athlon 1GHz system with 256M main memory and 512K L2 Cache. In the body of the article it says "Note that the Dell and IBM systems have 128M of Rambus memory (RDRAM), while the 1GHz machines from Gateway and Compaq have 256M of SDRAM. To date, Rambus memory hasn't made much of a difference on our benchmark tests, but Intel has said the benefits of Rambus will become more evident as CPU clock speeds increase. That's an assertion our tests may already be starting to support. Unfortunately, RDRAM still costs about 30 percent more than standard SDRAM." At the bottom of the page, there is a Graphics test report in which the Dell system wins 5 of the 8 tests (and just barely misses leading in two others by a percent or two). Odds are that this is due to the fact that the Dell system is the only one with a graphics card with 64M -- all the rest have 32M. So, Ali, more unbiased evidence of RDRAM performance benefits. And to reiterate PC World's summary... Intel has said the benefits of Rambus will become more evident as CPU clock speeds increase. That's an assertion our tests may already be starting to support. Dave