Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[neye_eve]

sgolds - the Via v. nVidia boards

Of course, the theoretical maximum bandwidth for Athlon is 2700MB/S, so nVidia's dual bank technology really doesn't help until you multiprocess.

Or, as would be much more common on an nVidia board, use the integrated graphics "card". Then it doesn't matter if the cpu needs all the bandwidth it can handle - there's still a lot of it left over for the integrated graphics.

Also, as one sharp-eyed poster on Aces pointed out, when Via ran the tests, they used DDR 333 on the VIA board, and DDR 400 on the nVidia board. Result? Asynchronous timing for cpu/memory for the nVidia board, with the resulting higher latencies. As [insert your favorite "wrongly convicted" criminal] would say "It was a setup!"

neye