They have never sold RDram, the fact being, they didn't care to pay licensing royalties to Rambus Inc. who holds the patents for that style ram. You can acquire from Kingston Technologies and a number of other manufacturer's that are Rambus licensed. It is still the fastest ram presently available and I don't see them folding up their tents quite yet. JD

Dell XPST700r>PowerLeap PL-iP3 T 1300
Upgraded 4/23/2002
WinXP Home Edition
768 MB ram non-ECC
Gainward GeForce 4 Ti4200 Golden Sample 128 MB
Drivers 30.82 EXPERTool for card clocking
Western Digital 120 GB ATA 100 7200 RPM 8mb cache
Western Digital 30 GB ATA100 7200 RPM 2mb cache
SoundBlaster Live! Value OEM
Harmon Kardon 595 Speakers



Dell Optiplex GX1 Pll 350>Plll 700>PL-iP3 T 1200 Upgraded11/27/01
XP Home Edition
768 MB ram non-ECC
ATI Radeon PCI 32 MB
Maxtor 40 GB ATA 100 7200 RPM
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Soundcard
Logitech Z-540 Speakers

For your memory needs go to

http://home.pacbell.net/dbk4297/memoryupgrade.html

ditto

Name the type of RAM, and I'll tell you it's days are numbered. Any type out there will probably be obsolete (no longer used in new systems) in 557 days.

Your computers days are numbered as well. Anything you buy today will be twice as fast 18 months from now. So your gee-whiz top of the line system will have less performance than a new Dell's 2xxx series, or even an E-Machine.



Dimension 8200, 2.2GHz, 512MB, 80+60GB, Philips DVD+RW, 1702FP, SB Live! 1024, WinXP Pro (Home system)
Dimension 4300S, 1.6GHz, 384MB, 40GB, 16x10x40x CDRW, 1702FP, motherboard sound, WinXP Home. (Wife's system)
Inspiron 8200, 1.6GHz, 256MB, 30GB, WiFi, DVD, SXGA, WinXP Home. (portable)
Dimension 4100, 1GHz, 256MB, 40GB, 12x8x32x CDRW, motherboard sound, Win2K (Fathers system I maintain)
Homebrew, 1GHz, 512MB, 30GB, 12x8x32x CDRW, 14/32x CDROM, motherboard sound, Win2K.(Work system)
(other monitors 19-21" CRT, 100BaseT networking, mundane video cards
and speakers, Microsoft&Logitech wheel mice, Northgate Omnikey and
Dell keyboards)

Checking out these stories from the Inquirer, I don't think anyone knows what'll happen:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4880

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3004

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3735

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4375

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4533

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4015

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4022

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3395







Dimension 4400
1.8 GHZ
768MB DDR
Western Digital WD1200JB / 120GB SE
Maxtor D740X / 80GB
NEC 5800 DVD ROM
GE 8160B CDRW
Geforce3 Ti200
Soundblaster 5.1
IBM P275 21" Monitor
Logitech Cordless Freedom Optical
Epson C40UX
APC LS 700VA
XP Home
Roxio Platinum
Zone Alarm Pro
AdSubtract Pro
Sandra 2002 Pro
Belarc Advisor
Adaware
Folding @ Home - Team 33 ardOCP

All they said was the Rambus business (as Micron/Crucial see it), is simply not going to get big enough to make it worth their while. They did not predict that Rambus will be gone.

The RDRAM vs DDR story is mainly $$$$. At one point, Intel was 100% behind RDRAM until the RAM suppliers (Micron is one of the biggest) along with MB manufacturers bolted. The reason is the license fee that Rambus charges, nobody wants to be in a situation when ONE patent holders control the price you pay (not if it can be helped anyway).

Dell XPST700r>PowerLeap PL-iP3 T 1300
Upgraded 4/23/2002
WinXP Home Edition
768 MB ram non-ECC
Gainward GeForce 4 Ti4200 Golden Sample 128 MB
Drivers 30.82 EXPERTool for card clocking
Western Digital 120 GB ATA 100 7200 RPM 8mb cache
Western Digital 30 GB ATA100 7200 RPM 2mb cache
SoundBlaster Live! Value OEM
Harmon Kardon 595 Speakers



Dell Optiplex GX1 Pll 350>Plll 700>PL-iP3 T 1200 Upgraded11/27/01
XP Home Edition
768 MB ram non-ECC
ATI Radeon PCI 32 MB
Maxtor 40 GB ATA 100 7200 RPM
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Soundcard
Logitech Z-540 Speakers

For your memory needs go to

http://home.pacbell.net/dbk4297/memoryupgrade.html











Message Edited on 08/10/02 07:06PM by jdwssll

Feel good that somebody agrees with you, even if they didn't read what you wrote.

BTW, I agree with you, too.



Dimension 8200, 2.2GHz, 512MB, 80+60GB, Philips DVD+RW, 1702FP, SB Live! 1024, WinXP Pro (Home system)
Dimension 4300S, 1.6GHz, 384MB, 40GB, 16x10x40x CDRW, 1702FP, motherboard sound, WinXP Home. (Wife's system)
Inspiron 8200, 1.6GHz, 256MB, 30GB, WiFi, DVD, SXGA, WinXP Home. (portable)
Dimension 4100, 1GHz, 256MB, 40GB, 12x8x32x CDRW, motherboard sound, Win2K (Fathers system I maintain)
Homebrew, 1GHz, 512MB, 30GB, 12x8x32x CDRW, 14/32x CDROM, motherboard sound, Win2K.(Work system)
(other monitors 19-21" CRT, 100BaseT networking, mundane video cards
and speakers, Microsoft&Logitech wheel mice, Northgate Omnikey and
Dell keyboards)

I was toying with a Dimension 8200 until someone suggested that I look into RDRAM future availability. I ended up ordering a Dimension 4500 with DDR SDRAM. It just shipped and should be in use within a week.

Consider the following that I just found on PC Magazine web site.

Intel Phases Out Workstation Support of RDRAM from Rambus

Intel is phasing out PC and workstation support of RDRAM from Rambus in favor of DDR SDRAM. Analysts say this is the winding down of Rambus at Intel, although RDRAM will continue to be supported in the niche market. It marks the final chapter of Rambus' once dominant partnership with Intel, which tried but failed to dictate RDRAM as the next generation PC main memory. Memory roadmaps show the Intel desktop 850 chipset for RDRAM will continue into 2005, but there will be no successor.