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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (80426)12/23/2001 11:10:35 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
Hi Harvey Allen; I'm under the impression that a few synthetic memory bandwidth applications will still show the 850 faster than DDR.

-- Carl

P.S. I'm thinking about getting a new machine, but I haven't made up my mind yet. The SiS735 is a great MB, as far as I know, but the Athlon has a much slower FSB, so synthetic memory tests are going to show it considerably slower than a P4. This has little connection to real world uses of computers.

P.P.S. Re: "Pricewatch 128MB RDRAM prices less than Crucial's latest PC-2100 prices for the same part." Well, Pricewatch has PC2100 DDR prices lower than the latest prices for PC2100 DDR from Crucial.

That's why I compare lowest prices on Pricewatch to lowest prices on Pricewatch, rather than, for example, comparing lowest prices on Pricewatch to prices for Dell upgrades, LOL!!!



To: Harvey Allen who wrote (80426)12/24/2001 12:28:29 AM
From: SBHX  Respond to of 93625
 
SiSoft's Sandra is one of those benchmarks that times sequential memory reads and writes. These numbers really makes drdram shine.

sisoftware.demon.co.uk

As to why those numbers don't always hold up when many real world benchmarks are tested, there's lots of speculations, but only those who bothered to take a logic analyzer and understood cache miss granularity and latency issues will truly know for sure.

tbreak.com
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