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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (85322)	7/18/2002 3:01:22 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Respond to of 275872

Wanna_bmw, Re: I don't believe that will be enough to make up for the loss of latency benefit that the integrated memory controller can offer. I agree. It just makes no sense to develop a new processor which derives most of its performance gains from its integrated memory controller and then switch it off and use an external controller. A Hammer with an external memory controller is nothing more than a beefed up Athlon with x86-64 and SSE2 (and some other minor additions). While nForce 2 is supposed to outperform current Athlon DDR chipsets by up to 10% an integrated memory solution will always outperform it unless it's very poorly designed. Andreas