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To: Joe NYC who wrote (155931)1/17/2002 9:06:42 AM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Intel may as well stick with SDRAM....

It's not like the P4 chipset can handle high speed I/O.

Intel has PCI bugs in chipsets too

Burst a blood vessel
By Mike Magee, 17/01/2002 08:48:50 BST

....This limits the PCI transfer rates to 90MB/s when it should be 133MB/s, and so the external PCI disk controller is, to use a technical term we just invented, "blinkered" to rates of around 80MB/s when it's running in the desperationd derby.


Details at:
theinquirer.net

Maybe if they can fix their chipset bugs they won't lag quite so far behind in workstation and server apps.