Author: Joshua Lee
Date: 09:05:09 09/05/00
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133Mhz or PC133 is obviously better than 100Mhz or PC100 but the catch is that while everybody can use PC100 because of the fact that nobody runs a bus speed of less than 100Mhz, PC133 would be great for Intel because they do have a board that runs at 133. The athlon is supposed to run at 200 but it is a trick. it is 100 but due to utilizing the rising and falling edges of a clock cycle it is in effect 200Mhz. But who cares anyway we would still need rdram or rambus at 200Mhz as pc133 does NOT utilize the rising edges of the clock cycle so imagine a car with a new special kind of engine that can perform like a car that CAN go 200 MPH but it really only goes 100Mph. You have gas that can make it go 133Mph but obviously this doesn't matter. The other problem this poses is time or latency because the gas isn't the gas your engine or cpu wants it eats time and in effect takes longer than if your engine was 133Mph to go along with your 133Mph gas. I don't know exactly how much it effects it maybe a few Nanoseconds??? but best bet is to wait untill next year because AMD is supposed to have a platform which will use DDR.
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