Rambus Shmambus!

[cjolley]

Right off hand, I'd say wait on the Rambus purchase.
http://www.semibiznews.com/story/OEG20000708S0001

chuck


[This message has been edited by cjolley (edited 10 July 2000).]

[The PIT]

It's what we've all known all along now whats Rambus going to do as a reply.
Anyway I thought it was piss funny when I read about it.

[Himself]

Rambus has a lot in common with AGP, I suspect that if Rambus becomes standard, the rallying cry will be Rambus 2X is the answer or Rambus 4x is the answer.

[Jeff]

Kinda funny huh...I just received my VC820 with 128m of RDRAM today.

I ran some tests with my old SE440BX-2 and 256m of Crucial CL2 PC133 SDRAM and also with 256m PC100 CL3 SDRAM vs VC820 and 128m PC800 RDRAM. I only ran 3D Mark 2000 but here are the results:

SE440BX-2 with 256m PC133 - 2612
SE440BX-2 with 256m PC100 - 2603
VC820 with 128m RDRAM - 2629

The BX system had a Promise ATA66 controller and Sound Blaster Live every thing else is the same.

My Max is finally running at 4x AGP for whatever that means. System seems slightly faster. Who knows

JP

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Workstation Specs:
Pentium III 500, Intel VC820 with SB 128PCI Audio, 256m Samsung PC800 RDRAM, Matrox Millennium Max 32m, Hollywood DVD Decoder Card, 3Com 3C905TX-C NIC, Western Digital 9g Expert HD, Sony 5x/32x DVD-ROM, 19" Sony 420GS, and Windows 98SE

Server Specs:
Dual Pentium II 333s, Intel DK440LX, 256m Crucial CL2 PC-133, Productiva G100 8m, 2 - Intel 10/100 NICs, Western Digital 18g Enterprise Ultra2 SCSI HD, Sony 24x SCSI CD-ROM, Sony 10x/4x/32x CDR, 15" Sony 15sf, and Windows 2000 Server.

[HedsSpaz]

WOHOOO!!! And to top it all off, some of the best news I have heard in a while!
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000710S0007

Major DRAM manufacturers are quietly planning to file an industry antitrust complaint against Rambus with the Federal Trade Commission, according to high-level industry sources last week.

Does it get much better than that?

[Dr Mordrid]

Looks like Intel stepped into another pile of elephant dung....

This trumpet was first blown (loudly) by Tom Pabst of TomsHardware.com. He did extensive tests a couple of months ago and came to the same conclusions. Actually in his tests PC-133 RAM in a BX mainboard was 10-20% faster than RAMBUS.

There is justice in the world

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 12 July 2000).]

[merchant2112]

intell deserves to reap the rewards for its buissness pratices