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To: Echo Talon
It would be nice if Apple made it easier to change CPU's, also if they got rid of that horribly slow FB-DIMM memory!

Would that be the 667MHz Fully buffered error correcting DIMMs that are required to be used with the 1.33GHz front side bus of the Woodcrest family of processors used in the Apple Mac Pro??? What would you replace them with?

7 posted on 09/13/2006 10:55:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker
It would be nice if Apple made it easier to change CPU's, also if they got rid of that horribly slow FB-DIMM memory!

Would that be the 667MHz Fully buffered error correcting DIMMs that are required to be used with the 1.33GHz front side bus of the Woodcrest family of processors used in the Apple Mac Pro??? What would you replace them with?

I've read reports that the FB-DIMM architecture forced on everyone by Intel is nothing to write home about. Some speculate that a Core 2 Duo properly implemented might come darn close to a Xeon with the FB-DIMMs.

10 posted on 09/14/2006 12:02:17 AM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity.)
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To: Swordmaker
Would that be the 667MHz Fully buffered error correcting DIMMs that are required to be used with the 1.33GHz front side bus of the Woodcrest family of processors used in the Apple Mac Pro??? What would you replace them with?

Anand addresses it here

Look at the previous pages to see 1 Core2Dou beat 2 Xeons inside the mac because of the slow memory used by apple...

11 posted on 09/14/2006 12:06:31 AM PDT by Echo Talon
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