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To: Dave B who wrote (56397)	10/3/2000 5:54:22 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, Either you misunderstood him (and forgot that the P4 had two RDRAM channels), or you were being intentionally misleading in your response. Actually, neither. He wrote: "The P4 numbers will leave no doubts on what RDRAM brings. " I wrote: "PC800 provides 1.6GB/s. DDR266 provides 2.1GB/s." I told him exactly what RDRAM brings. You can build as many connections to memory as you want, but that does not change the intrinsic value of the DRAM type, which is what Sylvester was claiming. Intel is building DDR chipsets for P4 which will probably also use two connections, giving a total bandwidth of 4.2GB/s. Scumbria

To: Dave B who wrote (56397)	10/3/2000 7:12:36 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave DDR-I and DDR-II theoretical bandwidths are much higher than their actual sustainable bandwidths because of its inherent inefficiency in handling concurrent requests. RDRAM's actual sustainable bandwidth is about 90% efficient leading to a much higher sustainable bandwidth for all practical purposes. What Scumbria was saying is lacking so much specificity as to be for practical purposes meaningless. This is true of most of his posts. By the way, do project managers actually design anything? I thought they were supposed to manage. <G>