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To: Paul Engel who wrote (15491)	10/22/2000 5:34:00 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

I'm sure they won't be far off from this DRAMATIC increase review of DDR and Athlon. DDR SDRAM on the AMD Athlon - Performance Preview anandtech.com The MB anandtech.com Real work Bandwitdh test "Quake III Arena paints us an interesting picture. While the DDR Chipset with its PC1600 DDR SDRAM is able to offer a 14% improvement over the KT133/PC133 platform, it is still defeated by the i815/PC133 platform by a couple of fps. In order to understand this you have to understand the nature of Quake III Arena as a benchmark. A final board/chipset would most likely be able to pull ahead of the i815/PC133 platform however, because of the SSE optimizations in Quake III Arena it's very likely that a Pentium III on a solid platform could give even an Athlon with DDR SDRAM a run for its money. anandtech.com keep in mind this is a beta MB with no Optimization RMBS sucks hard on this one. " Date: September 14th, 2000 Type: Memory Manufacturer: Various Author: Anand Lal Shimpi Review Index: SelectIndexDDR SDRAM – Technology & BenefitsThe Flavors of DDR SDRAMDDR ChipsetsThe BoardIssuesThe TestOffice/Content Creation PerformanceGaming PerformanceIntel's Performance Measurement UtilityMemory Bandwidth PerformanceFinal Words In order to truly test the power of the DDR Chipset and its DDR SDRAM we shifted focus to Intel's own set of benchmarks that are designed to illustrate memory/processor performance. Generally speaking, these tests tend to favor Intel processors but work wonderfully as a comparison aid. The Windows Media Encoder test puts the top three competitors within reach of each other but there's a huge performance drop at the end of the chart for the Pentium III on the i820 platform. There's no real explanation here except for maybe RDRAM's latency issues on the i820 platform are holding it back in this case. anandtech.com RBMS sucking again anandtech.com "The picture we're painting here is really only half of the story though. Aside from the fact that the performance of the DDR Chipset platform will improve with better drivers, and more mature platforms (although the FIC AD-11 was amazingly solid in our tests), the DDR Chipset chipset officially supports the 266MHz (133MHz DDR) FSB frequency. The combination of the 266MHz FSB and PC2100 DDR SDRAM could prove to be a very valuable asset to the Athlon, especially with the higher performing Mustang derived cores on the horizon. While our AD-11 sample was able to run at the 266MHz FSB seemingly reliably, we didn't have any CPUs on hand that would reliably overclock using this increased FSB frequency. An updated AD-11 with multiplier control however would allow us to do quite a bit of experimentation with the effects of an increased FSB frequency and greater memory bandwidth on the Athlon platform. Until then, enjoy the glimpse of what the DDR Chipset and other DDR SDRAM platforms will be able to deliver to the Athlon. We will be providing more information on DDR platforms in the form of previews and reviews as time goes on. " anandtech.com RMBS is dead, and INTC was stupid to ever go with it. Milo