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Alfie · 03-20-2004, 10:26 AM

The speed gain is mainly from the memory controller built into the cpu.
If one examines bottlenecks in a system,the cpu to memory is one.
The 64 cpu eliminates the need for a seperate memory controller and therefore runs faster.

03-20-2004, 10:26 AM	#12
Alfie Member (13 bit) Join Date: Sep 1999 Posts: 4,956	The speed gain is mainly from the memory controller built into the cpu. If one examines bottlenecks in a system,the cpu to memory is one. The 64 cpu eliminates the need for a seperate memory controller and therefore runs faster.