Re: AMD CPUs in ASRock motherboards

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:44:44 +0000, Robert Redelmeier wrote:

> keith <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm no expert either, but I don't see why one would close a
>> page unnecessarily. Burst <> row or page. The *one* advantage
>> of DRDRAM was *supposed* to be that multiple (as in many) pages
>> could be kept open. I don't think SDRAM forces one to have a
>> page open only when it's bing accessed. Even page-mode DRAM
>> (what, 15 years ago?) didn't require pages to be closed after
>> each access.
>
> No, but there are delays (smaller on same row) and burst
> length seems to be limited to 8:
>
Ok, but the graphics card need only open a new page when it's crosses the
line. I believe SDRAM can keep a couple of pages open too, but I'll
have to try to find D.

> http://www.eet.com/news/design/silicon/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=17408438&kc=6325

No brains nor interest to try to decode something that technical tonight.
....I'll be back! ;-)

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Keith
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