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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jdaasoc who wrote (36793)	1/29/2000 4:33:00 AM
From: Orion	Respond to of 93625

New computers with Rambus inside "Now available from PREMIO© is the 820R Series featuring the Intel© Pentium© III Processor and with new RDRAM memory, this system is fast and dependable" premiopc.com Also registered on the EXXXCELLENT rambusite.com

To: Jdaasoc who wrote (36793)	1/29/2000 9:40:00 PM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

John or anyone with technical knowledge, I'm looking for comments on the following that I received from an engineer that is anti Rambus technology. He appears to make some good points. ---------------------------------------------------------- If you require the specifications of the systems here it is again 1) new P3-733EB($1300) with i820($300) and 128MB RDRAM($1600) for about $3,200 2) a pair of P3-667EB ($1900) on a dual-cpu UW-SCSI board ($540) with 256MB PC133 ($650)for about $3,100 If you're unsure about what is required of you, I'll spell it out in plain English. 1) Provide URLs or other sources of verifiable origin, which shows that an x86 Computer system with a single Pentium III CPU using 128MB RDRAM is faster than an equivalently priced dual Pentium III system using 256MB PC133 SDRAM. 2) For the system configuration, they should be using, apart from CURRENT motherboard, CPU, memory types, identical MODERN components. Which is to say pitting a P3-733EB with 128MB of RDRAM with a 30GB 10,000RPM UW-SCSI drive and 32MB Geforce DDR against a dual P3-667 with 256MB PC66 SDRAM, 1.2GB ATA3 drive and 2MB Trident video card is NOT acceptable for comparison. 3) For the tested components, the operative word is equivalently priced. Hence configurations comparing P3-733EB with 128MB RDRAM against dual P3-450 with 256MB SDRAM is NOT acceptable either. However, neither are configurations with extreme unbalanced configurations, such as dual P3-450 with 512MB of SDRAM or Dual P3-800 with 32MB of SDRAM. 4) To prevent any misunderstanding of what industry accepted benchmarks are, they must be application benchmarks capable of supporting dual processor usage. Synthetic benchmarks solely testing memory transfer performance will not be considered for comparison as they have little relevance to daily usage of the normal PC user and out of relavance to my posed question. Nobody doubts the peak transfer capability of RDRAM, it is the cost effectiveness and feasibility in normal usage that is called into question. Examples of valid benchmarks would include graphical transformations in Photoshop or AutoCad, MatLab processing of huge matrixes, Applications Suite benchmarks like those from ZDNet. I hope that is clear and detailed enough for you to begin providng a reasoned and supported reply in favour of RDRAM OR failing that, a gracious and rational admission of the impractically of RDRAM at current or near future prices with regards of cost effectiveness for the normal PC user. However, you're not a native English speaker, neither am I, and required translation into a language you can understand better, please post a request in the language of choice and I'm sure somebody here will probably know that language and be kind enough to provide translation to avoid any chances of misunderstanding the requirements for proving to me that a RDRAM setup has any feasibility over an equivalently priced SDRAM setup. Please consider carefully before you reply. Thank you for your kind attention.