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Two Approaches to the Next-Generation Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the neck-and-neck-and-gizzard dept.

puppetman writes: "Tom's Hardware has a review up of a pre-production P4/2666 using 533 mhz Rambus memory (and shows it stomping the competition). The Pentium 4 needs memory bandwidth, and DDR doesn't supply it. Or does it? Anandtech, ironically, has a preview of the E7500 chipset from Intel - dual channel DDR with support for up to 16 gig of RAM. With a new bus architecture, this looks perfect for high-load databases that need wide pipes to hard-drives, memory, and ethernet. Both of these technologies look great for mid-range database servers. Anandtech claims that dual DDR200 will provide 3.2 gig/second bandwidth, where Tom claims that DDR266 (single channel) offers only 2.1 gig/second. Intel is sure hedging their bets. I wonder what AMD has up their sleeves."

2 of 333 comments (clear)

  1. DUHHHH by killerasp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Will a 2666mhz beat out a XP2000+? Of course!!! Its about 1ghz faster. It doesnt take a monkey to figure out that its gonna win. How about you stick it up your ass until AMD comes out with something at equilivant speed.

  2. Who cares what Tom's says anyway? by aquarian · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Tom's Hardware doesn't do anything relevent, unless you consider Quake relevent. I've never seen anything on that site that would be useful to a real systems engineer. It's just a bunch of whack-off material for geeky college kids and pseudo-techie gadget freaks.

    And who could respect such a slow, buggy, messy website anyway?