Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:09:51 05/27/02
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On May 27, 2002 at 07:59:25, Dan Andersson wrote: >Rumors are just rumors. But you have to ask yourself why AMD isn't raising the >FSB. They can do it you know. There are no technical reasons why not. The EV6 >bus has no problem delivering 400MHz bandwidth. Because it has been able to do >so from the start. AMD is playing the money game here, no doubt. And do not want >to be in the Intel situation, where the high end PIII is killing the low to >medium end P4 CPU's. That's why it's not certain that they will release the MP >with higher FSB. And the FSB is the only thing stopping the Athlon from >hammering the speedy P4 :) The thing you are calling lagging behind is most >probably the staging of a new round of releases. > >MvH Dan Andersson But Dan the same thing can be said about the P4. Where the AMD can go till 400Mhz, the P4 can go theoretical without problems to 800Mhz with its bandwidth. Note that bandwidth is not interesting for computerchess, perhaps that's why they do not do it :)
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