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To: Bilow who wrote (47910)	7/26/2000 4:34:05 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Carl, upcoming benchmarks. Look's like we may see BM's for P3 / DDR266 and P4 / PC800 at about the same time frame. Any guess on how they'll compare?

To: Bilow who wrote (47910)	7/26/2000 5:05:18 PM
From: Brian1970	Respond to of 93625

Three pieces of bad news = F + U + D. Still loooooonnnnnnnnngggggggggg

To: Bilow who wrote (47910)	7/26/2000 7:10:28 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi all; About that Nvidia DDR chipset design rumor... It's on Tomshardware: The first Nvidia chipset should see alpha silicon around November and is rumored to be a DDR-SDRAM integrated offering. The integrated grahics solutin will either be a GeForce2 gts or a GeForce2MX. Like VIA's next products, there will be versions of the same chipset for both the AMD Athlon and the Intel PIII. In Q1, 2001 the second Nvidia chipset should see first silicon. This chipset has similar integrated features as the first Nvidia chipset, but has dual channel DDR-SDRAM support for a massive 4.256 GB/s bandwidth! tomshardware.com The thing to note is that Nvidia apparently sees no pin problem with putting two DDR interfaces into a PC chipset. That unit will have amazing bandwidth. It should be cheaper for the guy who would otherwise have had to buy a separate machine and upgrade it with an Nvidia graphics card, and it should provide him with considerably better performance. So much for all the BS the Rambus people have spread over the last few years about all those pins RDRAM saves. Fact is, nobody wanted those pins anyway. Note that the rumors of Nvidia's PC chipset designs are more detailed than rumors about their next graphics chipset. This is to be expected. If they released rumors regarding their next graphics chip, they would tend to convince current customers to wait for it. Since they don't have any chipsets for sale, there is no big problem with talking about their PC chipset plans. -- Carl