Well, you can find it for around 150 dollars, just go to anandtech and check out their latest price guides. ( 149US i think on one place )
Or you can listen to anti-intel/rdram people who spew outdated information because they are so biased that all they can do is toss propoganda at newbie after newbie in this attempt to amass as many newbies in their corner as possible. Pretty sad, it's just hardware.
But anyway, Mooseboy, RDRAM is not in fact dead. If you want the Pentium 4 processor in fact you must use RDRAM, which by the way only posts a 5-8 percent performance gain over standard PC133 SDRAM-just like DDR SDRAM does, because todays apps dont require/utilize all that extra bandwidth.
There are two speed grades of DDR 2100 and 1600 or PC266 and PC200. RDRAM comes in three flavors PC600, PC700 and PC800.
And by the way, RDRAM is far from dead. Reports from Anandtech and other sights indicate that RAMBUS will be releasing PC1066 RDRAM in 2002 on a 4i setup, rather than a 16i setup like current RDRAM uses. ( i really wont get into it, but it is just a different setup and lets leave it at that. )
I will even give the bandwidth of the memory types.
PC200 DDR = 1.6GB/sec
PC266 DDR = 2.1GB/sec
PC600 RDR = 1.2GB/sec
PC700 RDR = 1.4GB/sec
PC800 RDR = 1.6GB/sec
But the thing that takes RDRAM ahead of DDR in the bandwidth battle is a Dual RAMBUS channel that comes on the i840 P3 board and the i850 P4 board, but not on the i820 P3 board ( which are the only three RDRAM compatible boards at the moment ). The dual RAMBUS channel doubles the bandwidth of RDRAM thus giving you.
PC600 RDR = 2.4GB/sec
PC700 RDR = 2.8GB/sec
PC800 RDR = 3.2GB/sec
And when PC1066 RDRAM is out it will possess:
2.26GB/sec which will effectively be:
4.52GB/sec of bandwidth on a dual channel.
So RDRAM is alive and well, it's just their lawyers that need to die.
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