as far as I know there are no athlon motherboards that actually can use RDRAM.
From my research I'm pretty sure that RDRAM is Intels and Rambus's baby and
even Intel is having second thoughts. AMD's web site recommends high quality
pc-100 or pc-133 ram.
Abe
>===== Original Message From Jaguar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>Some of the sites I have seen/read suggest that an Athlon runs happier with
>RDRam
>Another $0.02 worth...:)
>Jaguar
>
>"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Abe wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm running mandrake 7.1 on a Duron 600 with ASUS A7V motherboard. I did
>the
>> > install myself. 7.1 installed perfectly on my system. Perhaps it is the
>Abit
>> > board that is causing the problems? The other possible issue is power
>supply
>> > and RAM. The Athlon series want a high quality 300w power supply and AMD
>> > recommends that you use new ram in conjunction with these chips. I'm
>using
>> > pc-100 ram that is about a year old in my system and I haven't had any
>> > problems.
>> >
>> > Good luck!
>> >
>> > Abe
>>
>> Hi Abe. I have a question, even though its not quite related to this
>message
>> thread. Its about that RAM speed rating you mentioned. Is it okay to use
>PC-100
>> with a fast Athlon system? Somebody told me I'd have to dump the RAM I'm
>using
>> with my current K6-III/475mhz, if I upgraded to an Athlon. (bottleneck)
>>
>> Thanks for any info!
>>
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>>
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