> (note that I think highly of AMD from everything I've > heard, just am curious) > > (1) what is crippled with DDR? not sure I understand you
Intel & VIA have recently come out with chipsets that support DDR memory instead of Rambus memory which originally was the only memory type the P4 supported. The fastest DDR memory you can get is 166Mhz (333Mhz DDR), and the 2.2 P4's support a 400Mhz bus (533 Mhz soon). Even the fastest DDR memory available is not fast enough to feed a P4 going at full speed. Rambus however is built for massive bandwidth (higher latency though). The Athlon though is still maxing at 133Mhz (266DDR)...DDR is a perfect fit, although admittedly inferior in the bandwidth department. If Video Editing/DVD Ripping interested me, even I'd get a P4/Rambus....that stuff needs massive bandwidth. A P4 without its bandwidth advantage gets outperformed by a wide margin in just about every task by the Athlon, and since it's more expensive to start out with, giving a P4 DDR means price parity with the Athlons, but you end up with much worse performance... > and > (2) why are Rambus mgmt scumbags? Fraudulent, litigation happy, patent mongering, Intel kickback giving fools is what they are ;-) Oh and it's more expensive too. http://www.boycottrambus.com/ > > am probably going to replace pc within a year, and the > new smaller (.13 micron) die will allow the speeds to > hit 3 GHz by end of 2002, I've heard. Intel has some really cool stuff on the horizon, but AMD's Hammer should be here by the end of the year as well. A German mag recently benchmarked an alpha silicon Hammer @ 800Mhz vs a P4 @ 1600Mhz and the Hammer beat the P4 in Q3A fps... jon ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
