Smá fróðleiksmoli sem mér datt í hug að einhver kynni að hafa áhuga á.

Þeir vildu ekki birta þetta sem “grein” hér á Huga.
Ég er þá bara svo grænn að hvað er þá “grein” skv. þeirra skilgreiningu.

En hér er það sem ég hélt að væri grein :)

eftir Overclocker

“I'd just like to share some information with you about a PC market trend for the next year. As you may have noticed, due to Intel's recent and upcoming price cuts for P4, the market is rapidly adopting this platform. That doesn't mean that this is the best platform, but it seems that alot of people will be buying it. This is evident by a recent surge in mothebroard orders for P4 motherboards. Sales for P4 850 motherboards have increased 33-50% in the past couple of months (still much less volume overall compared to socket 370 and socket A). Although this figure is well off of Intel's intial projections, it does show that P4 demand is picking up.

With the introduction of the 845 -SDRAM boards and DDR based boards coming out soon, the P4 platform will increase even more. Most manufacturers have already seen huge demand, and there is trouble for some companies getting enough chipsets to keep up. You will see them in many mainstream systems as system integrators and companies like Dell more agressively adopt this platform. I think many people who will buy the P4 will be confused as there will be 2 options avaialable; Socket 423 and socket 478.

Socket 423 is based on the P4 Williamette - 0.18 micron architecture.
These Socket 423 motherboards are all based on the 850 chipset and only support RDRAM.There is a surplus of these boards in the market from various manufacturers including Intel, and I predict that you'll see a some sort of dramatically reduced prices. This could be good for some, but for most users the Socket 478 platform is more viable and cost-effecient for the future. Why?

- RDRAM costs are higher than PC133 and DDR by up to 66%
- although RDRAM does offer some performance benefit, it's not the best solution for all mainstream users…Socket 423 strictly supports RDRAM only
- Socket 423 processors will only reach speeds up to 2.0GHz and will
eventually be phased out.
- Socket 478 provides the best upgrade path for P4 as it will be supported for Williamette and Northwood (0.13 micron) processors
- Only Socket 478 P4s will have speeds over 2GHz (current roadmap shows well over 3GHz…off the record even heard up to 4GHz)
- Socket 478 supports PC133, DDR, and RDRAM for the most flexible memory configurations (varies from chipset to chipset)”.


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