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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

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To: Bilow who wrote (41613)	5/8/2000 4:32:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (5) of 93625

Hi all; Jimminies! Dell says RDRAM runs at 566MHz, not 800MHz. I can't believe this! They must be running the memory at 4x the processor bus speed of 133MHz. That would make the simplest memory interface, but all the stuff we see about the great performance of these systems is silly. Dell must have made a mistake somewhere along here... Go to the following link, go past the "Processors and Chipset" section and then click on one of the three blue "RDRAM" links in the Memory section. dell.com You get the following information on memory: Peak memory bandwidth is 33% greater with RDRAM than with PC100 SDRAM Model: XPS B XPS T L Series ------ ----- ----- -------- Memory Type RDRAM SDRAM SDRAM Slot 2 RIMM 3 DIMM 2 DIMM ... Frequency 266MHz 100MHz 100MHz I have to suspect that this is just a Dell technical writing error, they really can't be sending out such pieces of junk. There is another explanation, however. It could be that Dell was unable to get -700 and -800 RDRAM to consistently run in a mass market PC, so they derated the systems down to 566MHz and the simple 4x processor multiple. Then, with the high end, they send in the technicians to more thoroughly test the systems at 800MHz. If this is the case, then the buyers of those PC566 machines really got toasted, and my comment that we wouldn't see Rambus in mass market PCs (from last September) still stands. -- Carl

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