EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 05:44 PM 13/08/02 +0100, you wrote: 
>
> --- Sascha Franck <saschafranck@...> wrote: 
> > Indeed not much of a speed jump... and the Dual 1GHz still is a bit
> > pricey...
> Well, arguable - At the cheap end of the wedge (what I've just ordered) the 
> standard model has gone from 800MHz G4 to Dual 867MHz G4. Also on the next 
> two models up the FSB is now 166MHz which should provide a noticable boost. 
> As for now having 333 DDR across the range I'm undecided as to whether it 
> will provide much of a boost or not. 


How so? The increase in FSB speed of 25% is surely less of a boost to memory
performance than the 100% increase in bandwidth at a given bus speed when you
move from SDRAM to DDR SDRAM. 

This improvement in memory spec should boost plugin instances considerably --
eg number of compressors/ Plat verbs /VST synths you can run. G4s have been
hobbled until now by two years out of date memory bandwidth. The Intel 845
chipsets which were released last year for the low end P4/Celeron absolutely
sucked compared to the 845 DDR chipsets that replaced them soon after. The bus
speed on both versions of i845 was the same just 266 MHz DDR instead of PC133
SDRAM. 

Regards,
Murray