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Originally Posted by cerbie Rambus came out with RDRAM, which, for non-notebooks, was superior to the upcoming DDR. It was cheaper to manufacture, ran very fast, and only had small latency problems, which were not important once it got up to speed. It had current leakage and bus issues, but those have been dealt with with future revisions |
Originally Posted by cire RIMM was fast on paper, but in real life performance it was slow. they used the "quad-pumped" FSB netburst tried to pull off and failed. it overclocked like crap, it had very high latency (too high to be used efficiently with AMD chips at the time), had a completely different archetecture that probably wouldnt go to well with AMD's memory system and was expensive. the cheapness of DDR1 and SDR couldnt have been all attributed to this unfair trade, as SDR was pretty mature and had already been produced for a few years and DDR1 was just a modification of SDR. |
Originally Posted by cerbie Also, how was NetBurst a failure? AMD had a slight edge early on, then the P4s had the best performance around, right up until the A64s. It changes when you start counting in value (the P4s still suck for the money); but as the technology itself goes, it was a success until the Prescott stopped ramping. |
Originally Posted by cire netburst is pretty fast, but really its hellishly inefficient, therefore a failure in my mind. northwoods had 30-40% current leakage, which is pretty crappy and prescotts going up to almost 60% leakage. netburst just ended up being a intel's hackjob; lets keep sticking on more pipe stages until we can scale the chip even further, with no regard for power consumption! seriously though, if intel Isreal can alone manage to modify the P3 design into an amazingly powerful, but at the same efficient with clock cycles and power, then what was the netburst team doing? |
Originally Posted by cerbie Between all of that and the ICH4, Intel has not been in the good graces of many a techie for the last few years |
Originally Posted by cire dark side...says you... kinda pathetic really...AMD can't come up with their own good chipsets. though the dothan really is one amazing piece of silicon, i'll give them that. eww...tom's hardware...that dude is full of **** a lot of the time.... |
Originally Posted by pbirkett Personally, I'd like to see Grado fined for their ridiculous european prices - i mean come on... nearly $1300 for RS1's, thats disgraceful, especially when some of you guys complain they are overpriced over there too... In fact, theres quite a lot of companies i'd like to see fined for ripping us brits off - we seem to be the whipping boys of the world when it comes to being ripped off. |