Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kash johal who wrote (33955)	3/28/2001 2:07:19 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"There again when was the last you bought a PC based on SPEC??" I was just wondering why Elmer didn't answer my question on how the P4 and SDRAM would do on SPEC. LOL

To: kash johal who wrote (33955)	3/28/2001 2:53:03 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

> There again when was the last you bought a PC based on SPEC?? There's something to be said for the fact that nearly all of the benchmarks in which the P4 dominates are suspected to be bandwidth hogs. Spec2k is merely an example of a class of benchmarks that are great on the i850 but would suck massively on a i845/SDR. This class of benchmarks includes Quake III and several of the "streaming media" benchmarks that do great on the i850. Personally, I think that Intel would be smartest to come out with no less than PC2100 memory support for the i845, eschewing PC133 and PC1600 (which will both likely underperform compared to the i850). It looks like we may not get this, though. :/     -JC