Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 04:51:10 04/14/03
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On April 14, 2003 at 07:37:21, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On April 14, 2003 at 05:56:53, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110254,00.asp > >Of course it is, so was 533 and 400. As they say, supposedly you get 3.2gb/s on >the P4's "400MHz" bus, 4.2GB/s on the "533MHz" bus and 6.4gb/s on the "800MHz" >bus. In reality, however, a "533MHz" bus (actually 133MHz) gets about 2.5gb/s. >4.2Gb/s theoretical, 2.5gb/s actual, thats 59% efficiency. Take the true >200MHz/400DDR bus of an AthlonXP running on an Nforce2. Whats the Max >Theoretical you can get? 3.2gb/s... what is the actual bandwidth? 3.2gb/s. Plus >the memory latency is MUCH lower on an Athlon board. :) > >Looks like Intel is continuing it's marketing BS again.. > >If you want to see how much a 200MHz (400DDR) bus helps an AthlonXP checkout my >companies webpage, go to the benchmarks section. All of the blue results are >stock speed (133 & 166fsb chips), the red results are the pretested chips >running 200fsb(400DDR). For chess it will make little difference. Terry
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