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To: fyodor_ who wrote (78420)	4/26/2002 2:25:53 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

The idea of dropping the Clawhammer is ridiculous. The reason AMD is not pursuing a 166x2 FSB with PC2700 for Athlon XP's is because it only results in 5% performance improvement at most. Various overclocking sites have proved this but you and Joe insist on continuing to overestimate the advantage of doubling memory bandwidth. Dual channels would also require some incrase in latency. The clawhammer has double the cache of the XP. That should reduce the number of main memory accesses by 30%, if the "wayness" is high enough. The Clawhammer might start running out of gas at around PR3600, but I am convinced that DDR will be available at cheap prices above PC2700 by that time. PC2700 DIMM's are already almost at PC2100 prices. Alternatively, AMD could make a Clawhammer socket version of Sledgehammer -- fewer pins but with 1M L2. Petz