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To: Joe NYC who wrote (59322)	10/31/2000 12:23:37 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Joseph, Huh???? Athlon FSB went from 100 MHz to 133 MHz, matching P3. Athlon FSB is DDR, which improves bandwidth vs. P3. But that is exactly the point. Athlon has had a 200MHz FSB and P3 a 133MHz FSB. We now have AMD showing benchmarks of their 266MHz FSB with 266MHz matched memory, which is 100% faster than the PC133 that they are comparing to), yet they don't show numbers faster than 10%. And this all using the fastest version of DDR at 266MHz which is not only more expensive but also more difficult to manufacture and more unstable. The fact that a 100% faster FSB system with matched 100% faster memory can not beat a PC133 system by more than 10% says a lot. The fact that the PC133 system is even slower than Intel's i815 PC133 system says even more. It says: DDR sucks. It's pure junk. Nobody in their right mind buy that junk when they can get a PC133 system with just as good performance at half the price. DDR mobos are more than twice as much as PC133 mobos. Even worse, the mother of all DDR companies, Micron, shows 128MB slow DDR sticks (200MHz) at $200. There is only one thing to say here: DDR is pure hyped up junk. 100% dead end junk.