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To: porn_start878 who wrote (123346)	8/31/2000 2:18:24 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570535

The big question mark here is wheter Intel choose RMBS because of it's superior capability, or it's financial advatages (wich turned out to be disadvantages..). Max, Probably both....Scumbria's comments not withstanding, DRDRAM must score well on some benchmarks..either that or there are a lot of people seriously deluded when they compare it to DDR. As for RMBS, I don't like them anymore than anyone else but there must be something to their legal arguments because they don't look like they are going away anytime soon. What I am hoping with the MU lawsuit is that RMBS and DRDRAM will be forced to compete in the open market instead of being in control and dictating prices. ted

To: porn_start878 who wrote (123346)	8/31/2000 4:38:48 AM
From: vvga	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570535

>multiple channel DDR-sdram would have done the job as well >with lower latency and lower prices. Pins baby... > I believe that the K7 with DDR266 will nearly >triple it's KT133 scores, or reach close to 1000MB/s, still >30-40% under P4, but it will show that it's a > chipset concern not a memory type thing... 1000MB/s is referring to what exactly? DDR chipset bandwidth to memory is more like 266 MHz * 16 B/cycle = 4000+ MB/sec peak. You'd get anywhere from 30 to 70% utilization for ~2000 MB/s measured. P4 will have dual RAMBUS 800 channels for around 6000 MB/sec peak and around the same utilization -- except when we invent some "better" benchmarks... :)