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Subject: Re: You can't touch this.

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 06:04:02 08/28/02

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On August 27, 2002 at 23:25:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 27, 2002 at 13:43:03, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>It's Hammer time!
>>
>>
>>On August 27, 2002 at 10:08:29, Ed Panek wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5134
>
>
>Remember, 800mhz is almost down to 1ns/cycle.  No way you are going to
>read data from memory that fast.  Put as big a pipe as you want, but
>if you can't fill it, it is marketing hype only...

Actually it could help a bit it would seem. If they only run the ram at
400-600MHz DDR that'd leave quite a bit of bandwidth for 8X AGP transfers, PCI,
etc. Would help to not saturate the bus as much as current systems (synchronous
ram/bus speeds).



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