rimm = rambus = rdram?

[TheSaint51]

I just got a Intel VC820 (Vancouver) mobo and I just realized that it doesn't take SDRAM. The manual says it takes RIMM, so I assume this is the same thing as Rambus or RDRAM?

VC820 Official Product Site

 

[Thyme]

Yes, it is.

 

[zoom8112]

correct, you need to buy rambus ram aka pc600, pc700, pc800

pc800 being the fastest at 400mhz ddr (800mhz effectively, hence the name pc800)

rimm stands for rambus inline memory module

 

[Desmoquattro]

oh man an 820 huh? read this for more info about your board. i think you can actually attach a hub to it so you can take SDRAM but it's so slooooow...much slower than a BX with SDRAM.

 

[Athlon4all]

ahhhh 820, first you might have gotten a 128MB RIMM with that mobo, I seem to remember seeing it being sold with a RIMM. Yeaha, RIMM = Rambus Inline Memory Module, just as a DIMM = Dual Inline Memory Module. I wouldn't get the SDRAM converter, because there was some severe problems when using the MTH that made the RIMM slot take SDRAM so I'd say just pick up a 128MB PC800 RIMM, but performance will be worse than a BX with PC133.