What do you guys thing about the P4

Timm Murray admin at madtimes.com
Fri Apr 13 06:35:00 PDT 2001


Tim Carlson wrote on 4/11/01 2:10 pm:

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>1.5G P4 with 512 PC800 
>RDRAM

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>vs. a dual P3/1G with 512M 
>PC133 SDRAM

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I would bet the diffrence is in the memory, not the CPU.  Matrix
inversion,  AFAIK, is a very memory-intensive job, so using
RDRAM instead of ol' SDRAM is going to cause major improvements.


Timm Murray

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