what mobo supports rdram???????????????????????

[tkim]

i have a slot 1 p3 and i want to use RDRAM, what mobo would support this? which one would be the cream of the crop??

 

[AdamK47]

Gaaaack! Excuse me, I can't answer you now. I just threw up.

 

[AndyHui]

The Intel Pentium III is unable to take advantage of the bandwidth offered by RDRAM. In addition, Pentium III chipsets have poor latency management for RDRAM.

I see from your signature that you have the Intel Vancouver VC820 board. If you MUST use RDRAM, (and I strongly recommend against it), and you want to replace the VC820 board, go with the ASUS P3C-E.

If I were you, I would suggest you ditch the VC820 board along with the RDRAM, and use the money from selling these in buying an ASUS P3V4X and 512MB of RAM or something.

 

[tkim]

so as far as efficiency, you think the rdram and the vc820 sucks compared with my same chip and some regular sdram? how would these two match up in a head to head? thanks for the help andy!!!

 

[AndyHui]

It has been shown in most cases here on Anandtech's reviews, and various other sites, that an i815E chipset based board with PC133 SDRAM is either on par or outperforms an i820 chipset based board with PC800 RDRAM.

In most situations, the SDRAM solution, especially for Office applications, will be faster. There are certain programs that RDRAM performs well in, although these are very few.

Given the significant price difference between an i815E/PC133SDRAM system and an i820/RDRAM system, I would go for the cheaper SDRAM solution and put the left over money towards something like more RAM or a faster video card.

I won't say that the i820 with RDRAM sucks, but it's certainly not my first choice.

Although I have mentioned the P3V4X above, which uses the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset, its performance can be tuned to have very close performance to an i815E based system.