Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:00:11 08/28/02
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On August 28, 2002 at 09:04:02, Aaron Gordon wrote: >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). For some programs, yes. But chess really is not doing animated graphics while the engine is thinking, nor is it doing I/O. All we need is low latency and high bandwidth between the CPU and memory... And running the bus faster and faster is not solving the basic problem with DRAM technology.
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