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lol.. if they did take the route of rdram systems... i with pc800 or even the newer ram that is coming out... it would topple p4 systems even more perhaps even macs... think about it..
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as i said before, the athlon can't handle the bandwidth of rambust, and the increased latencies of rambust would slow the athlon down. I'd say kt133a would be faster than a rambust chipset
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I heard from a reliable source that Intel is now using 266 ram, instead of PC-800!! Too bad, the pc-800 is WAY FASTER!!
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Yeah, that reliable source is everywhere for the last 3 months.  Actually, the bandwidth of 2100mb/sec vs 3200mb/sec isn't as much as the names of pc266 and pc800 would let you imagine. Generally the sis645 with pc333 is faster than 850 with rambust, and all the other pc266 chipsets are 5% slower to the same speed as the 850 with rambust. And because rambust doesn't like very high speeds, you'll probably get much better performance when overclocking with ddr anyway
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