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Anonymous   03-21-2001 at 04:25:23 PM

<A HREF="http://www.ebnews.com/digest/story/OEG20010320S0069" target="_new">http://www.ebnews.com/digest/story/OEG20010320S0069</A>
Seems like Intel is in a very tough situation. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't. One of the reasons why people won't buy P4's is because of RDRAM. So take RDRAM away from the P4 and feed it memory with much lower bandwidth and you've taken away the P4's only real performance advantage over the Athlon. Will people want to buy a P4 later this year, even if it's inexpensive, when the Athlon kicks it's ass in every performance category? Intel's got some tough decisions to make.

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Anonymous   03-21-2001 at 05:23:03 PM
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You said it, but still smart people who won't buy RDRAM hopefully will be smart enough to realize that the P4 is crap without 3.2GB/ps Memory Bandwith. I would buy Northwood with RDRAM if it beats Athlon, but truthfully I think the only way P4 will success is with either dual channel PC2100 DDR (4.2GB/ps bandwith), or PC3200 DDR (Clockspeed 200MHz/400MHz effective).

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Anonymous   03-21-2001 at 08:44:20 PM
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maybe they just shouldntve released a substandard cpu in the first place. bring out northwood now, or as close to now as poss. and jack that up with some ddr

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