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To: Paul Engel who wrote (34973)	7/22/1998 8:00:00 AM
From: Majic-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

This again shows the total lack of common knowledge at Pauleron's. "Why in the world did every major PC manufacturer switch to more expensive SDRAM over EDO ram? For a 2% Speed improvement?" The only thing you can do is copy and paste information from 3rd party, analyzing a few sources and compiling your "own" and "correct" opinion is a very sad way of trying to be right. Some friends of mine, (talking "hey, my cursor moves on the screen!") even those hardware-dumbasses know why the industry switched from EDO to SDRAM. EDO does not alow more than 66 Busclock. BEDO could go "up to 83 MHz", but it was very expansive, and never really got through. Sdram had much more potential, and thus retailers made the step from EDO to SDRAM. It's simply the 66-100 debacle. Go take some sleep, Pauleron. Michael da Kota, From Holland With Love.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (34973)	7/22/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1573092

Did every PC manufacturer switch to SDRAM for a 2% speed improvement? Yes, Yes, Yes, they did! Remember that 1-2% WinMark's probably corresponds to 3-5% in a CPU-only benchmark. SDRAM doesn't help video or disk performance a bit. The high benchmark scores in the systems you showed had more to do with dual 10K RPM Ultrawide SCSI disks and $1000 Intergraph accelerators than they had to do with 100 MHz busses or SDRAM. SDRAM is not much more expensive to produce than EDO RAM. EDO RAM was not much more expensive to produce than Fast Page RAM. It is certainly worth it for a manufacturer to spend $5 more on 64M SDRAM to get a 2% improvement in WinMarks. In fact now they can probably buy one 64M SDRAM DIMM cheaper than two 32M EDO SIMMS. Petz