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AMD Athlon

by Marcus Yam, Aug 09, 1999 5:27am PDT
Related Topics – Hardware (PC only)

Woohoo! At first I thought I was going to have to link every single review from the current Athlon tidal wave, but looks like JC has done all of us a favor and has put up a page of Athlon articles giving you guys not only the ability to post comments 'Shack style, but also the freedom to rate the reviews at various angles (kind of like reviewing reviews). btw, here's the press release regarding the 650MHz Athlon that AMD just surprised us with.


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    By: Goku x
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    #7, the reason is simple, DDR Ram is proprietary, hence AMD and all the motherboard manufacturers have to pay to include it. Intel seems to be the only one backing it right now. It was also proven that there is no real performance gain by the increased memory bandwidth because it merely moves the choke point to another point of the chipset. Also, when you have that high of memory bandwidth, timing becomes more and more difficult. Think blue screen of death if the cycle is slightly off. You try moving 1.1 Gigs of info over the bus at one time that has to be in sync with the CPU. At that level it comes down to the distance the memory is located from CPU, Major development pain in the arse.
    Aug 09, 1999 3:22pm PDT