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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."

8 of 333 comments (clear)

  1. Heh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At some point we're all going to realize that hardware is just the ore that's necessary to create cool artifacts. It's the software that shapes and molds the raw materials.

    As much as we hate Rambus (we do, right?), the fact remains that it is a profitable company because it owns the patent to RDRAM designs. Since it doesn't manufacture anything, it can simply direct all its resources into coming up with newer, better memory designs. Rambus will be around for a long time providing the good designs to the memory makers.

  2. Re:good day, sir or madam by smagoun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    duh.

    next question?

  3. Re:not fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh you silly hypocrite:
    damn you, ac. damn you to hell.

  4. Re:good day, sir or madam by smagoun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no.

    I invented pants.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Re:It's been a while by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You cunning bastard! I had read about 'page widening posts' in the past, but I thought they were merely moronic references to Klerck's page-LENGTHENING posts. Widening hurts reading much more than lengthening...congrats!

  8. Re:It's been a while by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You fucker! I have to use IE at work.