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To: Scumbria who wrote (82142)5/30/1999 6:28:00 PM
From: grok  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Re: <High bandwidth is needed for graphics, not CPU's. The whole Intel/Rambus connection is little more than a marketing ploy.>

Actually a great place to have more bandwidth is in a big transaction processing server where you're switching tasks very frequently and having lots of cache flushes. Only problem is that no one is using rambus in these servers because the total memory is huge and drdram doesn't scale well to massive memory size. Too bad!



To: Scumbria who wrote (82142)5/30/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: grok  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
You might want to add this link to your collection. Place it in the Counting Chickens Before They're Hatched folder. (Hope BrowseMaster isn't messing up the link.)

127.0.0.1:3456/SI/cache.pl?reply-9858632



To: Scumbria who wrote (82142)5/30/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
SCUMbria - Re: "The only real advantage of DRDRAM over SDRAM is a smaller pin count. High bandwidth is needed for graphics, not CPU's. The whole Intel/Rambus connection is little more than a marketing ploy."

You may end up being right on this one.

I guess there's a first time for everything.

Paul