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To: gnuman who wrote (58743)	10/24/2000 8:33:38 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

It would be more interesting to see an 840 dual channel comparison. The 820 is being replaced soon.

To: gnuman who wrote (58743)	10/24/2000 8:33:53 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Gene, thanks for the link to Bert McComas' latest DDR "performance analysis." I don't know why he even bothers to pull off such obvious marketing tricks like: - Referral to AnandTech's online polls, which he admits are unscientific. - Hyping up DDR's release as if it's going to be the best thing since sliced bread. - Scaling bar graphs from a non-zero axis, thus making a 2% performance increase look more exaggerated. - Comparing Via's V-Link architecture to Intel's HubLink (and demonstrating the "superiority" of the former, surprise surprise), even though that has absolutely nothing to do with RDRAM vs. DDR. Although I have no reason to doubt his benchmark results, I do feel his bias shows glaringly throughout his article. It's not like DDR needs such marketing fluff anyway. Tenchusatsu

To: gnuman who wrote (58743)	10/24/2000 11:08:12 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Respond to of 93625

Gene: He has 820 chipset system beating 815e chipset system in many tests @ 933 MHz. Even Intel didn't even those faster results on 4 month old initial benchmarks from this summer with 700-900 MHz systems with 815e. It only goes to prove that the faster the system gets; the better RDRAM performance becomes. The 840 chipset solutions have been show to beat 820 chipset solutions by 30% minimum in many tests done last year. I hope you trust this performance improvement since it hard to find comparsions to workstations using SDRAM since they are in the small minority percentage wise now. Surely, 850 chipset systems toast even the 840 chipset systems so the end result is that Bert proved unequivocally that DDR is 10% faster than 820 chipset using 1 RDRAM channel and no more than 15% more than 815e/PC133 SDRAM combination. Just remember, Intel will continue to double bus speed, hard disk interface speed, and processor speed and DDR memory throughtput will stay at 500 MB /sec. john