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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (47022)	7/11/2000 2:54:17 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 93625

Tench. Speaking of which, that Thunderbird could really use some headroom in the memory bandwidth department! We will find out soon how much benefit there is from additional memory bandwidth in real world apps when DDR mobos are out. But you are right. If there is a (current) processor out there that could take advantage additional bandwidth, it is Athlon. Why is it still not blowing away Coppermine in the benchmarks? Perhaps it's the lack of DDR or RDRAM chipsets available for Athlon? I think Thunderbird is doing OK using less than stellar platforms that are available for it (Via chipsets): amd.com But it will take a better chipset (760) + DDR to really take a substantial lead. 133MHz x 2 FSB will help as well. If someone was out there designing Rambus chipset for Athlon, I would not mind. But as I posted earlier, the ideal platform that would show off Rambus would be a processor with on chip memory controller. With this arrangement, Rambus would not be suffering as much of the latency penalty, since the critical word could be delivered to a stalled processor quicker, without waiting for the full 64 bits to be loaded. What Rambys really needs is a 1+ GHz Timna processor. <g> Joe