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Subject: Re: Computer Speed Question

Author: Milton Zucker

Date: 20:00:36 10/30/00

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On October 29, 2000 at 22:39:43, Joshua Lee wrote:

>Latency.... does anyone understand that even if you spend $1000 on this rdcrap
>thinking that hey it must be good cause it is so expensive that is just another
>lie to scam the consumer out of hard earned money. It is the latency that makes
>it perform less than PC-133.  Wait for DDR chipsets they are better but hello
>none of this really matters too much anyway. all that matters is How many hertz
>are they giga or mega? How much cache, is it full or half speed, on chip or off
>and total cache? How fast is the Harddrive and how much cache does it have? How
>much system RAM? 800Mhz RDRAM means little if it takes longer to start(not
>inside a cycle but to actually begin a new). Video card matters and the cards in
>your computer ISA or PCI but only a little. OS matters a little bit more.

You might consider checking out this url.  They seem to have a different opinion
or rdram.

http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/1787/1/

Regards,
Milton Zucker



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