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To: Scumbria who wrote (55065)	9/25/2000 10:53:56 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, The fact that a 200MHz FSB and PC1600 memory (50% faster than PC133 memory & FSB) can not outright show a clear advantage, speaks volumes why you are upset. DDR is D.O.A. like in dead dead dead. Nobody in their right mind pay 50% more for a mobo (let alone the price of sticks, and we have yet to see any PC2100 sticks for some reason which tells me that those have even more problems and will be that much more expensive). DDR is "too little, too late". The DDR numbers and cost are "too little too late too slow and too vaporware". As Intel said: "DDR does not fit into the desktop roadmap". And they were right on the money. SDRAM PC100/PC133 will eat DDR for lunch on the price sensitive value and mid range market. RDRAM will eat it for lunch on the high end market. DDR has no market. As RDRAM prices continue down, they will continue to take market share from SDRAM. DDR is dead dead dead.

To: Scumbria who wrote (55065)	9/25/2000 11:11:03 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria re: Anand's benchmarks (which began your colorful career on SI) were much more accurate Does it matter? Both numbers showed PC133 more than enough to keep up and in fact beat DDR in most benchmarks. The fact still remains that the DDR hype has proven just that. Hype. We have yet to see any benchmarks that match the vaporware ghost of Micron's numbers that FUDster Bert McComas posted back in 1999. It seems that it was all FUD, BS and hype. DDR has not proven a runway performer and we now find out that it is 50% more expensive (not to mention the stick prices and that may or may not work or be compatible with other mobos or chipsets). I told you DDR was a PR disaster waiting to happen. Looks like it's already starting to happen.