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"Intel's New Pentium 4 Processor"
This has been driving me crazy for some time now. P4 vs. Athlon. Lets get some things straight! Athlon is a RISC processor, and I think all Pentiums are CISC. That should tell you why AMD has it better in the long run. Mac processors have been RISC, and therefore have been able to handle extreme mulimedia (decoding, rendering, etc.) very fast. Secondly, why the hell is the bus @ 100mhz and Rambus set @400mhz in one of your articles? So far, I have understood some things but this is freakin me out. How is it possible to have an bus @100mhz, yet the RAM is @ 400mhz and call it PC800? I think you are talking about the qaud fueled hyper pipeline, but this is just the same corner DDR memory took, since the new AMD boards are @ 266mhz DDR bus, or should I say, 133mhz(2x) (theoretically, but only benchmarks can tell right?), just so the processor can be left @ 133 FSB. Is there any reality that this freaky-ness will stop, and have real memory come out. When PC66 went up to PC100, there was no double quad super ultra mega data rate memory to deal with. This ideal makes me think that nothing has really changed and P4 is still @ 100mhz FSB pumping 4 times the info through its sorry pipe. And its probably not only that Athlon is a RISC processor, but that cramming all that you can in the pipeline really does not do anything. All that has really been done is increase the CPU speed from p3 1ghz to p4 1.5 ghz, and saying, oh my gosh its faster; like a half ghz increase would mean something in the benchmarks...nahhhhhhh. There is also the issue of latency, which puts DDR RAM at an advantage. But the bottom line is that PC2100 is actually @133mhz(2x) and that PC800 is actually @ 100mhz(4x). This really changes nothing and deserves very little merrit from me. Hey, its the clock that counts, and the lower the multiplier, the better speed you will get. Intel should of came out with Itanium and put AMD back in its place! But, hey, its not too late. As far as the channel goes, AMD will make the most profit, cus its a hell of a lot cheaper to put together.
This has been driving me crazy for some time now. P4 vs. Athlon. Lets get some things straight! Athlon is a RISC processor, and I think all Pentiums are CISC. That should tell you why AMD has it better in the long run. Mac processors have been RISC, and therefore have been able to handle extreme mulimedia (decoding, rendering, etc.) very fast. Secondly, why the hell is the bus @ 100mhz and Rambus set @400mhz in one of your articles? So far, I have understood some things but this is freakin me out. How is it possible to have an bus @100mhz, yet the RAM is @ 400mhz and call it PC800? I think you are talking about the qaud fueled hyper pipeline, but this is just the same corner DDR memory took, since the new AMD boards are @ 266mhz DDR bus, or should I say, 133mhz(2x) (theoretically, but only benchmarks can tell right?), just so the processor can be left @ 133 FSB. Is there any reality that this freaky-ness will stop, and have real memory come out. When PC66 went up to PC100, there was no double quad super ultra mega data rate memory to deal with. This ideal makes me think that nothing has really changed and P4 is still @ 100mhz FSB pumping 4 times the info through its sorry pipe. And its probably not only that Athlon is a RISC processor, but that cramming all that you can in the pipeline really does not do anything. All that has really been done is increase the CPU speed from p3 1ghz to p4 1.5 ghz, and saying, oh my gosh its faster; like a half ghz increase would mean something in the benchmarks...nahhhhhhh. There is also the issue of latency, which puts DDR RAM at an advantage. But the bottom line is that PC2100 is actually @133mhz(2x) and that PC800 is actually @ 100mhz(4x). This really changes nothing and deserves very little merrit from me. Hey, its the clock that counts, and the lower the multiplier, the better speed you will get. Intel should of came out with Itanium and put AMD back in its place! But, hey, its not too late. As far as the channel goes, AMD will make the most profit, cus its a hell of a lot cheaper to put together.