Terry Mathews wrote: > > > AFAIK, Intel P4 chipsets > > > only support SDR and RAMBUS...
> > Nope. There's one designed for upgraders with perfectly good PC133: > > http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/wn/index.htm > First off, if this doesn't prove that Intel is The Man who is greedy, I > don't know what does. It means there was a hole in Intel's product line that meant sales unnecessarily lost to AMD. > http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1533 > Second paragraph: The i845 is DDR capable, but Intel only allowed > manufacturers to use it as an SDR chipset... > http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1533&p=16 > Benchmarks in PC133 mode. > http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1489&p=17 > Benchmarks of KT133A motherboards. > >From this, you have to keep in mind that the KT133A motherboards have > matured some since the time that article was written. Also, look at the > hardware differences between the two test rigs. The fact that the AMD > systems keep up in the only RAM bandwidth benchmark (Quake III Arena) says > quite a lot. > > Me too. Last system I built used a Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus > > <http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/30/1626230&mode=thread>, > > but it wasn't for me. I'm just not thrilled with the current product > > options. > So you're telling me that you had a DDR AMD system based on the Dragon Plus > and want to drop it in favor of an SDRAM based P4 solution. ARE YOU MAD??? You're not paying attention. I'm not currently in the market. "Built" doesn't mean the same thing as built for myself (as the word's made explict). A friend's best friend bought a Gateway that went dead at age 13 months on a 12 month warranty. He remembered what I said about the worth of big name PC builders when he decided he'd had about all he could take of using a Pentium 60, and asked me to build him something worth having. The web review said Mandrake install was a breeze on the Dragon, so I convinced him that was worth having. -- "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28 KJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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