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To: jim kelley who wrote (39658)4/12/2000 10:09:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
Jim,

Do you understand the difference between bandwidth and latency?

You use the term "memory speed" rather indiscriminately. PIII systems outperform Athlon systems because of lower memory latency to the L2 cache. Bandwidth is of secondary importance to desktop CPU performance.

Scumbria