I forgot about RAM latency, but wouldn't RAM at 1333MHz and CL9 still be able to max out a 100MHz CPU?
There is absolutely no such thing as 1333Mhz RAM.
When they advertise that they are LYING.
There is absolutely no such thing as 1333Mhz RAM.
When confronted they will just lie about it... or if u find someone honest then they will admit that it is really only 1333 million
transactions per second that can be attained only in a limited set of circumstances.
Mhz is an absolute that is always attained all of the time no matter what.
Transactions can only happen 1333 million times per second as along as a big complicated set of rules are followed. One of the main rules is that all the memory accesses happen in a perfect line one after the other in perfect sequential order. There are other rules too but they get way to complicated for me to explain here.
When u break that rule, as u often do, then your speed drops like a rock because there is no 1333Mhz RAM.
You also can't write individual bytes on modern RAM. You have to write a giant block. I forgot the blocksize on current RAM setups but its either 16 or 32 bytes.
This is why a large copyback cache is extremely important with modern RAM chips.