Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:37:42 01/16/00
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On January 16, 2000 at 04:44:50, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On January 15, 2000 at 21:02:31, stuart taylor wrote: > >>What is this you are saying? rdram is retarded? or sdram? >> Retarded means backward? Only for chess? >> So will sdram always be better for chess?(i.e. Athlon is better-even >> for chess?) >>S.Taylor > >Retarded = stupid. And yes, RDRAM is 100% stupid. > >RDRAM has much more bandwidth than SDRAM, but PCs don't _need_ more memory >bandwidth. They need lower latency. And RDRAM actually has _higher_ latency than >SDRAM. It's also several times more expensive. And its clock speed is >unnecessarily high, which makes life hard for motherboard designers. Intel was >forced to release its i820 motherboard with only two usable memory slots, >because of the electrical problems with RDRAM. > >The reason Intel has been pushing RDRAM so hard is because they were in a legal >agreement with Rambus. The agreement expired earlier this month, so Intel is >expected to drop this stupid-ass technology like the plague and jump on the DDR >SDRAM bandwagon (finally!!). > >-Tom Unbeleivable!!! S.Taylor
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