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Stolen from Duke on the SI Intel thread:

from the inq: http://213.219.40.69/?article=5775

DCDDRRAM OK!

Granite Bay Spotted

By Charlie Digweed: Thursday 10 October 2002, 14:06

Nearly a month before Intel are scheduled to announce their double channel double data rate chipset ‘Granite Bay’, benchmarks of beta silicon have appeared.

After publishing his benchmark results of the chipset in an article which was later retracted on request of a vendor, Kyle ‘FrgMstr’ Bennett, Webmaster of [H]ardOCP snuck scores onto the website forums here for all to see.

While the test unit is still definitely pre-production, running on very early drivers, the scores for the platform given by Bennett are extremely impressive, bettering any existing RAMBUS or DDR configuration we've seen. The numbers are so high in fact that they’re getting on for 30% above the scores seen from top-end 32-bit PC1066 systems, which makes us wonder how much longer Intel will recommend RAMBUS for the top-tier, once the new chipset sees light of day.