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Subject: Re: AMD or Pentium, given the RAM and price changes...which is better ?

Author: Oliver Y.

Date: 11:08:59 05/12/01

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On May 11, 2001 at 20:26:15, Edward Seid wrote:

>>i'm not sure which type of RAM you ought to buy-DDRAM or
>>SDRAM) DDRAM is about 75% more expensive...
>
>I believe current prices for DDR RAM is just about par with SDRAM now.  Check
>prices at www.crucial.com

at the risk of getting off topic, my problem is that in Canada there is a huge
price premium still, as no one is carrying ddr systems or ram.  The alternative
is ordering from the US and having no support, with hassles on returns...

Today I just learned about Fritz and Junior claiming 1.8x speed using at least 2
processors, but the price is prohibitive for me to get a Pentium system.

again, sorry about the off-topic discussion, but any suggestions or predictions
are welcome.  I figure if AMD can't even get DDR chipsets going, they are going
to be a long while before they offer multiprocessor chipsets, mobos...etc.

So if I understand you correctly, the 400FSB advertised for RDRAM is highly
misleading? and specifically so for chess analysis processing speed?




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