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From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:57:47
Message-Id: 5AAD48FD.2010500@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness? by Fast Turtle
1 On 17/03/18 13:53, Fast Turtle wrote:
2 > So ask
3 > youself, why in hell they needed more then 4M? I could see 8M being a
4 > selling point but 64M - hell the first computer I build only had 16M
5 > (that was a 386 system).
6
7 Because buying new 8Mb chips is expensive, and 64Mb is cheaper?
8
9 Seriously, newer memory comes in larger packages and is cheaper. (How
10 much does a 4K CMOS chip cost nowadays :-) Compare the price of DDR2,
11 DDR3, and DDR4.
12
13 Cheers,
14 Wol

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