Author: Joshua Haglund
Date: 15:44:29 04/18/03
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On April 18, 2003 at 09:24:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 18, 2003 at 03:51:02, Joshua Haglund wrote: > >>Dear Robert, and fellow CCC members. >> >>If I recall correctly.... correct me if I'm wrong... but... >> >>I read on here that Rambus RAM is bad for chess and ddr is better for chess. >> >>What or how is this possible? Is it true with all applications or just certain >>or all chess programs? >>Or am I way off if left field. > >RAMBUS ram has a pretty good bandwidth number. The problem with it is it also >comes with a pretty bad latency number. > >I've run Crafty on most everything and I get the best performance on SDRAM. DDR >is next with RAMBUS in third place. > >No idea if this holds for all chess engines. And it certainly doesn't hold for >all applications >as our graphics stuff runs better on the higher-bandwidth RAMBUS memory. As >does our >high-powered math programs that stomp thru big arrays many times. > > > > > >> >>My CIS teacher just "loves" Rambus. >> >>Thanks in advance, >> >>Joshua
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