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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (60311)	6/2/1999 2:47:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571051

Tench, Re: "This article confirmed my view that PC133 is a mere stop-gap solution." Well there are two possible conclusions: 1. The increase from 100Mhz to 133Mhz didn't affect performance much at all. This leads to the conclusion that memory bandwidth is a non-issue for desktop PCs. And that 133 RDRAM won't do much either to boost performance. 2. The VIA implementation sucks and that no conclusion can be gained wrt to the performance boosts of faster memory bus. Regards, Kash

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (60311)	6/2/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 1571051

This article confirmed my view that PC133 is a mere stop-gap solution. Actually it confirms the view that for typical PC apps, memory bandwidth is a non-issue.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (60311)	6/2/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571051

<This article confirmed my view that PC133 is a mere stop-gap solution.> This article only confirmed that for every new chipset, with high time-to-market pressure, there are several performance bugs that usually have the last priority in chip debug. This most likely includes numerous FIFO buffers inside the VIA chip that are not running concurrently, the SDRAM timing is most likely relaxed to most safe (all turn-around and precharge times), and who know what else. You better tell us how many spins it took for Intel to make the 440BX chip.