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To: Elmer who wrote (60196)6/2/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: Petz  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1581342
 
Re: "Re: <AMD decided against the whole "memory interleaving" thing>
If so how does K7 use a 200 MHz bus with 133 MHz or slower sdrams?"

Elmer: I would think the obvious answer is, it doesn't.

Fudd, fudd, fudd, 200 MHz is the speed to the chipset. In addition to memory, the chipset is also communicating with
1. Disk drives (ATA-66). Did you notice the disk winmark of the K7?
2. AGP 4X
3. PCI peripherals
4. Possibly a high speed L3 cache

This was explained quite clearly in an article at Ace's hardware.

Petz