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To: Ali Chen who wrote (96749)	3/5/2000 12:42:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1574855

More about RAMBUS From: Jaffray Organization: remarq.com: The World's Usenet/Discussions Start Here Date: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:46 AM Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Subject: System Reliability: SDRAM v. RDRAM "I thought I would share my experience over the past month with memory on high-end PC's. I purchased two similar (except price) systems very recently. A) Dell Dimension XPS T700r with 512 MB 100 Mhz SDRAM B) Dell Dimension XPS B733r with 512 MB 366 Mhz RDRAM On both machines I have been running identical Visual Basic procedures that use from 200 to 500MB (at peak) of RAM and perform a tremendous number of hard drive data reads, calculations, and sorts. Across the board the speed differential for the different types of processing is 5 to 7%, which is very close to the differential in clockspeeds. I feel that I am receiving virtually no speed boost from the Rambus memory for my specific purposes, which I feel are highly memory-intensive. I have had absolutely no problems with the 700 SDRAM machine, but I am now getting crashes (blue screens) midroutine on the 733 RDRAM machine, something that has never happened with this code, and I have run it on older machines with no problem. This code takes about 4 minutes to run, and is highly optimized for speed and memory usage. Also, with general, far less intensive usage on the 733 I am having occasional problems with general system sluggishness at low memory usage levels, something that just hasn't happened on the 700 or my older 600. I am not even using the 733 any more because of the instability and unreliability. So I am thinking of returning it (it's quite new) and replacing it with an XPS T700r with 768MB of SDRAM for FAR less money than the 733 cost me a month ago. Given what I now know I expect a 10% speed increase over the 733." ----------------------------------------- There must be so much of RAMBUS advantage, is not it, Tenchusatu-Kim?