Sudhian Media has posted a new article: The AOpen AX45-4D Max: The SiS 655 Brings Dual DDR333 to the Pentium 4

Ever since it became clear that DDR rather than RDRAM would fuel the Pentium 4's future, the dual DDR chipset has been looked to as the true high performance concept that would provide the higher levels of bandwidth that the CPU needed to perform well. Our first concrete example of how a dual DDR chipset would perform when mated with the Pentium 4 came with Intel's release of their E7205 chipset, which proved that dual DDR 266 was capable of equaling or exceeding i850e performance across the board.

E7205, however, is not meant to be a mainstream dual-DDR solution, as Intel as positioned the board as a workstation platform and priced it accordingly. This makes the board rather pricey, as we'll discuss later. The SiS 655 is a mainstream-focused dual DDR solution that will not only arrive at a much lower price point but supports the faster DDR 333 solution as well. If it offers higher performance than the E7205 it may well take the crown as the fastest P4 solution available.

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