Internettarife Flohmarkt Magazin Heftarchiv English Pages Benchmarks c't-Projekte Leserforum Red. On top of that it now seems that Intels new flag ship is a few gates short of being suitable for capable server and workstations. When the first PC arrived on the scene the memory limit of 640 Kilobyte seemed inexhaustible.
Memory capacity is now much more important for system throughput than pure processor performance.
But the newest and 'fastest Intel processor of all times' restricts the sensible expansion of RAM in quite an untimely fashion. Above this boundary the processor must fetch directly from main memory. This inhibits the performance distinctly. Some skimped transistors are the reason why the L2 cache mirrors the area above 512 KByte to the lower address space. Windows NT for example crashes immediately because vital data areas are overwritten.