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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. What about my EDO RAM? by charon_on_acheron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    C'mon. I don't care about dual-channel RAMBUS. I need something to get more speed out of my 64MB of EDO I have in my Pentium 133MHz computer.

    At least until I can afford to get a new one that is. Next year. If the wife lets me.

  2. Re:Why AMD won the battle before it even began by akuma(x86) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Everytime I hear this argument, I am reminded of Bill Gates saying..."640K should be enough for everybody"

    Nobody can predict the future.