Fri Mar 1 03:03:08 2002

Oh, and the idea of Apple buying AMD is an insult to the intelligence of mayonnaise.

[url=http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=001351]AYB, please comment in this thread. It could use some of your CPU tagnutry skillz.[/url]

What dost thou think, jfw?

Fri Mar 1 04:30:10 2002

Fri Mar 1 05:18:04 2002

Any comments (for here or there) on what I wrote?

Fri Mar 1 05:34:31 2002

Please.

For the love of baby Jesus. Don't do it again.

Thanks.

Fri Mar 1 06:13:50 2002

I doubt it. Without more memory and FSB bandwidth, a PIII would likely be spinning its wheels long before even 3GHz, much less 4GHz. As multipliers increase, bandwidth and memory speed become ever more paramount. This is why in many tests a Pentium 4 2.4GHz using RDRAM on the i850 can outperform a Pentium 4 3GHz using DDR-SDRAM on any of the desktop market chipsets. A Pentium III at anywhere near 4GHz using plain jane PC133 would be utterly useless.

Generally, it's true.  It's all hypothetical though the P3 can't scale that high.  One thing though, I think that multiplier does make bandwidth more important, but people also like to ignore issue-width as something that saps bandwidth as well.