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To: Michael DaKota who wrote (43580)12/17/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573817
 
Michael,

the busspeed/memoryclock of the upcoming K7 will be the same as the *L2* speed of a pII400

For most desktop benchmarks, the fast bus will be of little value. A low latency L2 like that found in PII, CeleronA or K6-3 is much more important for performance. Fortunately, the large L1 cache on K7 will mitigate the slow L2 problem.

Intel systems will soon have an 800 MHz DRDRAM bus, so a 200 MHz bus isn't going to be a very exciting marketing bullet ;^)

Scumbria



To: Michael DaKota who wrote (43580)12/17/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Respond to of 1573817
 
<That the busspeed/memoryclock of the upcoming K7 will be the same as the *L2* speed of a pII400>

And the L2 speed of the upcoming K7 will also be the same speed as the L2 speed of the Pentium II 400. Life's full of trade-offs, don't you think?

Meanwhile, the L2 speed of the upcoming Coppermine (whenever that'll be released) will be the same as the processor speed.

Tenchusatsu


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