What is RDRAM??

[groovin]

ok, i heard about DDR Ram for P4s...

whats RDRAM?

 

[gopunk]

rambus ram, chief competitor of ddr. ddr is mostly used for athlon systems, whereas rdram is used for p4 systems, because rambus and intel are in bed together these days.

 

[Noriaki]

RDRAM = Rambus DRAM.

It's a high speed 16bit Ram channel.
Runs at 400Mhz DDR for a peak bandwidth of 1600MB/s
It's used in a dual channel config on the P4 to double the peak bandwidth to 3.2GB/s.

Where as DDR is a lower speed channel, but is 64bits.
It run at 133Mhz DDR for a peak bandwidth of ~2100MB/s.

 

[gopunk]

btw, the upcoming nforce chipset will use ddr in a dual channel too so it'll go up to 4.2 if i'm not mistaken. which i very well might be.

 

[groovin]

thanks for the info...

what boards support these 2 types of ram?
i just upgraded my pathetic comp to a asus a7ve.

 

[gopunk]

as far as i know your mb doesn't support either, it only supports sdram.

here's a link to asus' info http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/socketa/a7v-e/index.html

 

[groovin]

thanks for the link...

 

[thorin]

Rambus DRAM.

Definition

If you need more detail let me know.

Thorin

 

[Macro2]

RDRAM...
A company with bunch of Lawyers would ended up being convicted of a felony.

Intel was in on it too but escaped procecution so far...

Mac

 

[HansXP]

<< A company with bunch of Lawyers would ended up being convicted of a felony. >>



No no, that's RAMBUS.

 

[MustPost]

has anyone read the article about the history of Rambus. I believe it was the cover article on Red Herring a few months ago.
I have it at my office so Ill go look at it ASAP

 

[BurntKooshie]

Rambus was founded by a bunch of ex-AMD employees, awhile back.

 

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