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To: jim kelley who wrote (39530)	4/10/2000 3:18:00 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

jim: I have had no problems of the type that you have discovered. I have 3 RDRAM enabled computers and I have had no problems to speak of. There are the most enjoyable units I have owned. It seems that we are poised for a strong close with a lot of short covering. LOL john

To: jim kelley who wrote (39530)	4/10/2000 4:11:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Jim, <Spoken like a true blue AMDite.> The more popular term is AMDroid. ;-) <By the way I understand that the AMD chips consume twice as much power as the INTC chips at 1 GHZ.> Yet they perform marginally worse than Intel's chips at 1 GHz, thanks to lack of RDRAM (or even DDR SDRAM). Tenchusatsu

To: jim kelley who wrote (39530)	4/10/2000 5:08:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

<no problems of the type that you have discovered.> First, it is not me who experienced the problem. It was someone on Usenet who complained. <up to 10 copies of Quake at a time. Real time quotes, several different Explorer screens and more. > You cracked me up on this, man! Several _static_ explorer screens! Wow, what a load! Quake who does not check any data! You are the man! With ststic Explorer windows you will have a really long way to your limits! I guess it totally has escaped your attention that the guy was running serious computations, not Quake aliens. <By the way I understand that the AMD chips consume..> What I understand is that the junction temperature of so-called 1-GHz Cumines is 60 deg.C, and if you claim any hardware experience, you should realize what a joke it is. What I also understand is that brave engineers of Coppermine have no clue on how to identify the power consumption. Only idiots can quote that max Icc and typical Icc are almost equal. I also understand that the Rambus memory can blow out during initialization stage consuming up to 7.5 Amperes, as per published documents. I also understand that when a clock propagates along 65 inputs, it accumulates so much crap due to inavoidable little impedance mismatches, so only God knows how it ever works some times. Yet I realize that you need a X-ray machine to contol quality of BGA soldering, while regular DRAMs are ok with cheap visual inspection... Have a nice holdings :)

To: jim kelley who wrote (39530)	4/11/2000 3:52:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi jim kelley; Re the reliability of RDRAM machines. That someone would get even three machines that run beautifully is not surprising, and doesn't mean anything in terms of the reliability of RDRAM machines. You have to look at large numbers of machines to find the kind of failures that are a consequence of having insufficient margin in the design. The problem is that if 5% of the buyers return a machine for defects, the manufacturers profit margins are toast. Even if 5% of RDRAM machines were flaky, the odds would be very much against your getting one. But after having six months to exercise the bugs, I would expect that the DELL machines are running fine. (That may not be the case after they have extra memory installed in them from a vendor other than DELL.) I should note that I am not here suggesting that the post Ali Chen referenced is true. Of course I have no idea. But I wouldn't doubt it at all, this is exactly what I would expect of RDRAM machines, particularly when they are well stuffed with RAM and running memory intensive applications for long periods of time. In all this I am repeating myself. I said the same thing back in September when the Camino bug first came public: I am sure that the vast majority of Dell's early production Rambus machines are running beautifully, under normal operating conditions. I, myself, would be willing to buy one of those "defective" RDRAM systems. I would be sure to operate it in a stable temperature environment. I might, for instance, let it warm up for five minutes before making it do anything. I would be very careful if I ever touched those RIMMs, to clean them carefully before putting them back. I would keep dust from getting in the machine. I'd love to have one, at the right price, but I'd also like to wait for an Athlon, which I believe will kick rear end. #reply-11363837 -- Carl