X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F7211F620C for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:02:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18492-06 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:02:27 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from skunk.mtbrook.bozemanpass.com (unknown [69.145.82.195]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3753D11F60AF for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:02:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [69.145.82.249] (unknown [69.145.82.249]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skunk.mtbrook.bozemanpass.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED2655829A for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <444F7D6F.5080909@boreham.org> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:02:23 -0600 From: David Boreham User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Large (8M) cache vs. dual-core CPUs References: <7096611.1146055237377.JavaMail.root@elwamui-darkeyed.atl.sa.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <7096611.1146055237377.JavaMail.root@elwamui-darkeyed.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200604/599 X-Sequence-Number: 18683 > >The reason AMD is has held off from supporting DDR2 until now are: >1. DDR is EOL. JEDEC is not ratifying any DDR faster than 200x2 while DDR2 standards as fast as 333x4 are likely to be ratified (note that Intel pretty much avoided DDR, leaving it to AMD, while DDR2 is Intel's main RAM technology. Guess who has more pull with JEDEC?) > > > DDR2 is to RDRAM as C# is to Java ;)