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To: Paul Engel who wrote (152637)	12/16/2001 12:00:38 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: systems that are "benchmarked" are hot-rodded with CAS 266 DDR chips A CAS 266 system would be very slow.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (152637)	12/16/2001 1:58:42 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re: "Most AtHWiper systems that are "benchmarked" are hot-rodded with CAS 266 DDR chips - but the few OEMs that bother to sell them use 100/200 MHz SDRAM !!!!" That's a very good point, Paul. All the cheerleader web sites like to run Athlon systems with PC2100 CAS2 memory, with all the best of breed equipment, but CAS2 memory is still hard to come by. crucial.com Crucial - probably the most popular memory manufacturer - doesn't sell any PC2100 memory that is CAS2. Also, like you say, many retail OEMs continue to sell Athlon systems with SDRAM. The AMDroids will continue to complain about Pentium 4 SDRAM systems, yet they completely ignore the hit in performance that the Athlon gets from lower speed memory. But they'll still point to the cheerleader benchmarks, though, and pretend that the Athlon has higher performance than it really does. wbmw