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memory bandwidth on Athlon systems

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Richard Walsh rbw at networkcs.com
Wed Jul 19 13:06:07 PDT 2000


Guignon,

The CAS settings on the two boards may be different 
and if the kx133 bus is asynchronous this would add 
a one cycle latency delay to any memory reference.
This reduces throughput across memory reference bursts.

A good reference on this issue (if it applies here)
is at:

http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=5000172

rbw






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