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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (48333)	7/31/2000 7:39:05 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi Zeev Hed; Re: "But [I] think that the moves to fetching very large uninterrupted packets, which is the best mode for streaming video and streaming data might have been a factor as well." This is an interesting statement, but you still haven't answered my koan: If this is true, how come the maximum bandwidth of the FSB of the latest Intel Pentium III chips is only 1.06GB/sec? I repeat: Increasing the memory bandwidth (to the 1.6GB/sec of PC800 RDRAM) when you have a bottleneck at the FSB of 1.06GB/sec doesn't do you much good. (As Intel's own PC133 vs RDRAM benchmarks have proved.) So why did Intel do it? -- Carl