rc- I dug out one post from last week I found particularly helpful:
Date: 09/03/2002 04:28 PM Author: Kevin Graeme The P4 is generally best matched with Rambus memory. The PC800 RDRAM gives 3.2GB/s memory transfer. The PC266 gives 2.1GB/s. With that said, I would still go with the DDR system. The difference in speed with the Rambus vs. DDR is in Rambus's favor, but the DDR is no slouch. The difference in price these days is negligible, so that's not really a factor. And the other components in the system will still bottleneck much of the difference. It really comes down to ethics vs. theoretical performance. Rambus tried to sue the pants off of other memory vendors for using their proprietary tech. But Rambus was later found to have "stolen" the ideas for much of the architecture from JEDEC, the orginization that defines industry standards for memory. They served on the JEDEC commitee and weren't exactly honest about what patents they had and were working on. They were even sued by their own board. So do you go with the best performance, or do you support standards at a very slight decrease in performance? I build my own systems and I'm extremely happy with my DDR based i845e system. As for 1GB vs 512MB, if you don't whimper in terror of the extra $180 then go ahead and spend the money. The i845e specs support up to 2GB. Kevin Graeme /Ben > How does RDRAM PC800 ram compare to DDR SDRAM at 266Mhz. > > I ask because I'm comparing a Dell 8200 and Dell 4500 system. > > -rc > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
