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To: dumbmoney who wrote (80405)	5/4/1999 12:50:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<You aren't asking me, but I'll answer. Yes, PC133 will be sufficient. The front side bus of "Coppermine" runs at 133Mhz. If Rambus provides a performance advantage, it will be a modest one.> Yes, but what happens when the processor, AGP-4x device, and PCI cards all access memory concurrently? Direct RDRAM might not be necessary for the Camino chipset, but in the near-term future, that bandwidth will be necessary. Remember that when the 440BX chipset introduced PC100 SDRAM into the market, it only provided a modest performance advantage. Also, remember that when AGP first hit the market, it only provided modest benefits. Intel is usually forward-looking when it introduces new technologies like RDRAM. It makes sense when you realize that these technologies are there to remove potential bottlenecks which can hamper the performance of faster and faster CPU's. Tenchusatsu