SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Ali Chen who wrote (55630)4/15/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577868
 
Ali, the memory bandwidth is the limiting factor in chipset performance, not the processor bus.

Here's what I'm saying is the three streams of data which experience the heaviest traffic loads:

Processor accessing memory
AGP accessing memory
PCI accessing memory

Here's what you are saying is the three streams of data which experience the heaviest traffic loads:

Processor accessing memory
Processor accessing AGP
Processor accessing PCI

Believe me, Ali, your assumption is plain wrong.

Tenchusatsu