Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:12:42 10/01/00
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On September 30, 2000 at 05:58:57, Dan Andersson wrote: >As usual I wonder where you get your facts? 100 MHz DDR on a beta board gave >between 5 and 15 % percent increase. See Aces Hardware for example. from the biggest computermagazine in netherlands. they produced a lot of tables. Note that i remember when P60 came out that everyone said it was slow compared to a 486dx2. I got P60 after some time it was hell faster as any 486 for me. I remember the first reports about the pentiumpro. It would be faster for 32 bits, but fact was most said: "everything is 16 bits". It would be dead slow they said. It was 3 TIMES faster as a P133, and still is. I remember that some people in the rgcc/ccc group said that SDRAM isn't faster as EDO ram basically. I got SDRAM and it speeded my draughtsprogram 2 times up, BECAUSE IT IS HELL FASTER. Now if you can't believe that DDR ram is reported to be slower, may i point out to the history i've seen? First reports are to be taken with a bit of salt! I don't *doubt* ddr-sdram will in the end be exactly 2 times faster as SDRAM. Note that it's not 2-2-2 DDR ram yet, so if you compare that with 133Mhz 2-2-2 SDRAM i can imagine it's faster seemingly now. I don't doubt that RDRAM kicks ass either. If i see in a table that latency from SDRAM is 15T, and that it potentially runs way faster as SDRAM, that this is gonna outperform SDRAM with less latency 10T namely for 2-2-2 sdram, but that it just can't beat its speed. You just need a good chipset for RDRAM and a new and very fast processor, only if something is your 'bottleneck' it will help speeding it up. Also i don't see how you can ever keep running with such slow RAM. I have a dual 800 PIII, but my RAM runs at 100Mhz (even though it's 133Mhz sdram). that's 8 times difference!!!!!! Real soon we'll be able to buy 1.xx Ghz processors, still with 133Mhz SDRAM?
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