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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (123455)	9/1/2000 11:32:43 AM
From: that_crazy_doug	Respond to of 1570744

<< Doug, to repeat again, pins just can't be that expensive, the pin count on most northbridge chips floats up around 500. I'd guess maybe $.01 a pin, not $.10 or $.05. You might also check out my favorite prove of principle, tomshardware.com , describing a 693-pin dual-sdram channel "budget" northbridge: >> I agree, I was just posting what I thought an absolute worst case scenario was, and it still beats a rambus solution price by several hundred dollars.