Bottom line
We're pretty simple people over here. Give each of us a good, overclockable CPU, a nice video card, some affordable memory, a couple of good games, and you have a bunch of happy campers.
RDRAM looks interesting, but price is a huge concern for us. We'd rather not approach performance comparisons until prices fall to reasonable levels (we're not even willing to pay $500 for a CPU).
Basically, we just have to wait a year or two. If RDRAM falls in price and becomes mainstream, we'll do a bunch of comparisons. If not, we can always find more video cards to review and CPUs to overclock. It's unfortunate that RDRAM supplies weren't ready for the 820 release, but launching a new memory standard isn't a very common event (let's see you get seven different DRAM manufacturers to start production in unison).
RDRAM offers us another choice, but we don't want to look at it until it's affordable. For now we're content to say that Rambus isn't an evil, greedy corporation. The greedy (*ahem* business savvy) tag applies to the manufacturers taking advantage of the RDRAM supply and demand levels. The evil tag... goes to JELL-O for discontinuing the JELL-O Pudding Pop.
Update:
We will probably have one or two RDRAM comparison articles in the future since we have to justify paying an ungodly amount of money for our 128MB 800MHz RIMM. firingsquad.com
He has a very good point, that I feel is the main problem with RMBS is price/performance
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