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To: Petz who wrote (151680)	2/24/2005 1:59:54 PM
From: eracer	Respond to of 275872

Re: Do you have a link for Now take a desktop Dothan DDR2-533 motherboard and OCZ DDR2-533 3-2-2-8 and see...? Nope. You'll have to use your mind's eye. :) We won't get to see one unless Anandtech does a similar review with the same benchmarks using one of the new desktop Dothan motherboards along with low latency DDR2-533. At least a few motherboards are in the works but I don't believe they've hit retail yet. Without any desktop i925PM motherboards A64 and P4 win all of the benchmarks by default. The Dothan gain with low latency DDR2 should be almost as big as A64 going from single channel DDR to dual channel based on the results of the x86-secret review you linked to. The Anandtech review you linked to is great for comparing A64 single channel vs. dual channel performance with the 2.4GHz 3400+ (512KB/1CH) and 2.4GHz 3800+ (512KB/2CH). Gaming was one area showing that bandwidth was important for A64. The average improvement for dual channel DDR-400 was almost 8% higher than single channel DDR-400. In the four gaming benchmarks A64 beat P-M by 2%, 6%, 6%, and 9% (average 5.75%). I think it is relatistic for Dothan to gain almost 6% in gaming from the bandwidth increase alone by using low latency DDR2-533 rather than DDR-355. Dothan will also get a very minor boost from using PCIe x16 instead of 4X AGP. That is why I said gaming would move from A64 win to Tie. My guestimate on performance in the other groups was also based on how responsive A64 was to doubling the bandwidth in each of the benchmark groups.