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FishTankX

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From AMD3d UK.. will somebody like an intel employee please tell me how the hell you guys did this?!!?

"Intel's i850E is the primary chipset to offer support in a mainstream computer market for Rimm 4200/3200 modules , however PC-1066 or Rimm 4200 is yet to receive any official Intel support. Though this has not deterred mainboard manufacturers from going ahead with production and touting PC-1066/Rimm 4200 status. The i850E chipset offers a substantial increase in bandwidth between the north and Southbridge though this has shown to be a fixed solution at 3.2GB/s regardless of any increase in the FSB frequency. With the combination of the newer Intel Pentium 4B 533MHz bus processor it is here we see the benefits of the i850E chipset being able to hold the RDRAM multiplier at 4x at the higher 133MHz settings and unlike the previous i850 chipset where you can use PC-1066 on certain mainboards where the correct clock generator is being used but what you may see frequently arise is the RDRAM multiplier being reduced to 3x or lower when the FSB is increased to meet the specification of the newer Intel Pentium 4B processors. "

Heh.. P4X333=266MB/s interconnect
Heh... i845E I believe has the same
SiS645=533MB/s
i850E=3.2GB/s!! :Q:Q😀😀😛😛🙂🙂😎😎
 
Er, no. As far as I am aware (and I just checked Intel's documents), the Hub Link between the MCH and the ICH is 266MB/s.

The enhanced 82801BA I/O Controller Hub (ICH2) delivers twice the I/O bandwidth over traditional bridge architecture and provides dedicated data paths to fully optimize the additional bandwidth.
Product Brief

"Twice the traditional architecture bandwidth" means 266MHz, because the "traditional bridge" is the PCI bus which provides 133MB/s.

i850 Architecture: look carefully at the 1st picture. It's clearly a 266MB link.
 
Blah. Okay, my bad then. Stupid misleading article! 😀

Anyways, are you sure there wasn't a huge revision with the i850E?

And if not, why isn't it compatible with ICH4?
 
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