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Subject: Re: Looking for advice on P4 memory types...

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 02:10:49 01/03/03

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On January 03, 2003 at 03:20:55, Matt Taylor wrote:

>On January 02, 2003 at 22:48:24, Anthony Martini wrote:
>
>>On January 02, 2003 at 16:48:15, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>
>>>The thing is that RDRAM is in hardware purgatory. Rambus pretty much managed to
>>>piss each and every company involved in computer motherboards off. The current
>>>situation is that Intel is going with DDR400 memory. The situation may change in
>>>the future. But currently they are fading fast. And RDRAM isn't all sunshine and
>>>roses either.
>>>
>>>MvH Dan Andersson
>>
>>   Dan is right, Rambus has pissed a lot of people off... RDRAM 1066 is the
>>fastest memory out there (DDR2 is on the horizon), but it is more expensive and
>>requires a more expensive motherboard... I was online in OCT this year looking
>>for computers, and at the DELL Factory Outlet they were showing systems w/RDRAM
>>1066... In all tests that I know of, RDRAM is faster, but most OEM's are
>>currently using DDR...
>>
>>   Try this site--> http://www.tomshardware.com/
>>
>>  -,
>>     Anthony
>
>There is no universally faster solution. It always depends on what you are
>doing. RDRAM is really nice when you have a lot of serial computation to do.
>DDR-II will obsolete RDRAM as they will then have the same bandwidth. DDR-III is
>also planned.
>
>I would not be suprised if Tom's Hardware claimed that DDR SDRAM is slower than
>regular SDRAM. I do remember some of the comparisons they made between RDRAM and
>DDR SDRAM in the beginning, and I was thoroughly unimpressed. Poor technique,
>lack of facts, etc. Better to look for a site where the author knows what he is
>talking about.
>
>-Matt

Which page do you suggest?

Alessandro




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