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To: kapkan4u who wrote (48429)	7/19/2001 7:22:50 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Kap, <It is well known that any system's performance is gated by the slowest component. This is why 3.0GHz ALUs are irrelevant, while 750MHz decoder is very relevant.> Obviously if the decoder can fetch twice as much at half the speed, it's not the slowest component. Your argument makes about as much sense as saying that DDR at 266 MHz is worse than RDRAM at 800 MHz. <Also the number of transistors implementing L2/decode stages is an order of magnitude larger than the number of transistors in the ALUs.> Let's face it, most of the chip runs at 1.5 GHz, some of it runs at half the speed, and a small section runs at twice the speed. So what? Had Intel actually advertised the 2x speed instead of the main speed (as some in marketing no doubt would have liked), you'd have a strong case. But they don't. Tenchusatsu