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To: Paul Engel who wrote (156099)	1/17/2002 8:08:16 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re: "Tom's Hardware Speed Project: Pentium 4, Over 3 GHz!" Thanks, I just read it over. It really looks like that without the memory bandwidth, the Pentium 4 is going to scale absolutely horribly. Tom's Hardware used DDR memory, which clearly held back performance in benchmarks like Quake III and 3DMark, and especially that WinACE benchmark (where the 3GHz Pentium 4 underperformed most of the contenders). Intel is really going to have to push for either a dual channel DDR platform, or a PC2700 platform (but preferably the former) if they want to continue scaling performance. I was sort of disappointed by the scores, to be honest. The 2.2GHz Pentium 4 had RDRAM, but it shouldn't have been able to score so close in performance to something clocked 800MHz faster. wbmw