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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 106.06-0.8%Dec 11 3:59 PM EST
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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (54104)9/19/2000 11:29:07 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (2) of 93625
 
Re: They must be using repeaters. 4 GB divided by 288 MB RDRAM devices is 144 RDRAM chips

You have to remember to treat the channels as 18 bits wide to take into account the ECC bits needed to correct for the inevitable RDRAM data corruption.

:-)

Also, note the use of the term "when" 288 bit devices are available - so the max right now is 2 gigabytes, and that's only if you use a repeater (as you pointed out) which increases latency. So the performance is even worse.

We've had a workstation running at work for using an Abit motherboard, an Athlon 850, and 2 meg of unbuffered, unregistered SDRAM (unbuffered has lower latency than buffered).

It would blow away anything that Dell machine could do on memory intensive applications (and what other kind do you run on a 2 gig machine?), since it isn't crippled with high latency RDAM further slowed by a repeater.

It also cost about one half what the Dell machine does.

Not money for nothing (as in no difference), but money for worse (performance).

Of course, that Abit system, though better than the Dell system, will be totally outclassed by the various DDR systems being released over the next 30 to 90 days.

Regards,

Dan
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