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To: SBHX who wrote (41720)	5/8/2000 7:52:00 PM
From: visionthing	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

While DDR SDRAM might promise increased memory bandwidth, it will run into severe timing, latency and propagation delay problems due to the wide databus and ever increasing clockspeeds. Memory may then be cheap to produce, but motherboards will then need to have six or even eight PCB layers to be able to run these memory modules at such high data rates and clockspeeds, thus increasing motherboard costs substantially. Once more manufacturers start selling RDRAM and it becomes as commonplace as SDRAM now is, we will see its prices dropping, too. Due to the nature of the manufacturing process it will probably never be as affordable as SDRAM, but then again SDRAM doesn't offer the same performance, which is what you're actually paying for. hardwarecentral.com

To: SBHX who wrote (41720)	5/8/2000 8:22:00 PM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 93625

SBH, (I was lurking here, and couldn't resist my 2c, regardless of what I said before about not stepping in where lawyers are treading. The curse of itchy kbd fingers and a chatty nature) <G> I know how it feels. But posting hard data is always a good thing. Thanks for doing an analysis. Since we all agree, however, that the aftermarket price of RDRAM is still way to high (even at Dell), the important thing is to look at the trend. Someone (jim k?) a link a couple of days ago that shows the aftermarket price of RDRAM at almost half of what it was in January. So the trend is definitely in the right direction. Also, I posted comparisons of the Dell B series and T series systems recently, and the differential for 128M systems is only about $240 or 10%. Not great, but not horrible. It'll get better. Dave