Carl,
>>By the way, educate me, a little, (a man, after all, has to know his limitations), on AGP4X and the HDD<<
uhh, I think it has to do with serial accesses? That's what Scumbria said was Rambus' advantage: it's like a train that takes a while to get going, but once it's going...
Anyway, HDD and graphics are both serial reads, right?
Is "serial" synonymous with "burst"?
That's as far as I can go.
Except to add that it doesn't seem like, for the most part, HDD speeds (80MB/sec for scsi, 40MB/sec for IDE) are enough to overwhelm the bandwidth of SDRAM.
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RE the rest of your answer:
To summarize:
For $100 extra per machine you can have a Rambus system (assuming parity between SDRAM and RDRAM prices).
What are Intel's choices now for introducing Rambus? Can the 820 be salvaged?
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