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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (71375)	4/30/2001 8:30:13 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Jdaasoc; Most of our differences is simply due to your Rambus slant. For example, you're insisting on certain name brand sources for DRAM pricing when what I am interested in is the *next mainstream* memory type (and therefore available in generic form), not the next name brand niche memory type. Samsung RDRAM sells for exactly the same price as "generic" RDRAM on PriceWatch. Wonder why that is? When you see RDRAM commonly available in "generic" where this is substantially cheaper than the name brand, then you can crow about RDRAM becoming a memory standard. But right now, "generic" in RDRAM only means that the advertiser is too lazy to tell you in advance which name brand it is. With regard to 256MB being larger than the standard memory size of 128MB, this is true, but since my own workstation is built with 256MB modules, and since it is now a year old and looking to be replaced with a new machine with 1GB of SDRAM, I don't think that 128MB is a suitable size for comparing high end memory. By the time I stop this sequence, 256MB will be the standard size, not 128MB. Since the pricing for 256MB is around 2x the pricing of 128MB, rather than the very high premium for 512MB, the size I am using is suitable for comparison. As far as pricing for 256MB registered ECC DDR, you quote a price of "about $150 to $160" on pricewatch, but that is hardly the cheapest available. I find PC1600 registered ECC DDR (lifetime warranty, generic) for $109, that's more likely to be the type used in large memory systems such as the ones to be supported by Intel, as you yourself have posted. Re: "Can you confirm that a 256 MB Registered DDR module is made up of 32 pieces of 128 Mbit chips." No, I can't confirm this. Instead, I get 18 pieces. As far as the pricing for 512MB DDR DIMMs, if you want to get into this subject, we should be comparing prices to 512MB RDRAM RIMMs and 512MB SDRAM DIMMs. -- Carl