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To: visionthing who wrote (41723)	5/8/2000 8:53:00 PM
From: Barry Grossman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

I liked this too. We've gone to great lengths to make sure this article is well researched and an accurate, comprehensive and objective representation of current memory technologies, describing their advantages and disadvantages, and addressing any misconceptions. Our benchmark configurations and software used are documented in such a way that the results can be easily reproduced by anyone wishing to verify our findings. We feel that this article has more than adequately discussed most misconceptions about Rambus, SDRAM, RDRAM and why both Intel and Rambus keep backing the technology. Our benchmarks clearly show the performance edge the Intel i820 chipset equipped with Rambus memory has over the other chipsets.

To: visionthing who wrote (41723)	5/8/2000 10:26:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi visionthing; Re the Sanders Sassen article at hardwarecentral... I think that the guy is probably reasonably unbiased, but the PC133 system that he used did have certain disadvantages. The most obvious one was that he was comparing PC800, the fastest available RDRAM, to CAS3 PC133 SDRAM, the slowest form of PC133. Instead, he should have tested one of those Dell Dimension B machines with PC533... The benchmark mavens are also suggesting that there is a problem with other features of the setup of the VIA board. I'm not such a maven, so I'll just let the reader peruse the comments at that website. And then there is the whole issue of comparing the latest and best from Intel with a VIA product that is known to be slower than it should be. I think he's probably a fair reviewer, and I can hardly wait to quote back to you the results when he gets his hands on his first few DDR systems quite soon. -- Carl