Rambus is now on the endangered species list.

[figarowa]

tom's hardware has posted an article that shoots down Rambus and their RDRAM which is Intel's latest sham to get pc users to spend even more money on...heres the link... http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboar...529/index.html
Which i think is a good thing cuz i sure as hell don't have the ca$h to spend on that just for ram...hopefully soon the whole thing will die and DDR ram shall pave the way for future ram...just my thoughts..

[HAL9000]

Intel already plans to drop RDRAM. Why do you think that they are so willing to replace the CC820 motherboard with a VC820 with 128Mb of RDRAM (you don't have to return any RAM). I've done one replacement already and here is the catch. You MUST run a terminator in the empty RAM slot. The terminators are impossible to find forcing you to buy another RDRAM module. Slick way of dumping stock and recovering some investment even if it is just a small percentage.

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[Omletteboy]

Pretty slick indeed.....

[HAL9000]

Even funnier is the rumor that Intel is going to give their employees a "free" computer. Any bets to what motherboard will be going into it?

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[Floppyman]

Gee I wonder? It dare not have a amd chipset....

[M. A. Dockter]

It'll be a brand spanking new AMD Athlon. Only the best for Chipzilla's workers!

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[HAL9000]

Hey Doc... share that whacky weed a little

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[M. A. Dockter]

no no no...none of that...or the liquid form.
Try NyQill. That's the best drug in the world. If anyone hasn't seen Lewis Black's Comedy act on Comedy Central TV.

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[HAL9000]

MMMMMmmmmmmm.... NyQuil

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[Floppyman]

Hey Doc,

If you're calling the athlon the best...why are you still using Intel cpus?

[Joe Auman]

I heard in MaximumPC that the PIV will be set with single-channel Rambus chipset memory. Maybe it isn't going out just yet...

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Non-System brain or brain error!!
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[lynchmob]

What I cant believe is that Intel never resolved the empty slot bug I had heard about a few months ago: My understanding(sketchy) was that rdram wouldnt work if all the dimm slots were filled.Right?
lynch

[HAL9000]

They had problems with 3 RDRAM slots, so they reduced it to 2. Any empty slots must be filled in with a terminator.

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[Mattman]

Intel will not walk away from RAMBUS anytime soon. I found the REAL reason that Intel is sticking so closely to RAMBUS, along with chip makers like Samsung and NEC.

Here's a clip from a Tom's Hardware Article about it:

When Intel 'decided' to go for Rambus technology some three years ago, it wasn't out of pure believe into technology and certainly not just 'for the good of its customers', but simply because they got an offer they couldn't refuse. Back then Rambus authorized a contingency warrant for 1 million shares of its stock to Intel, exercisable at only $10 a share, in case Chipzilla ships at least 20% of its chipsets with RDRAM-support in back-to-back quarters. As of today Intel could make some nifty 158 million Dollars once it fulfills the goal.

This stands in direct opposition to recent claims saying Intel had just 'licensed' Rambus technology just as much as AMD has, which was supposed to prove that Intel and Rambus aren't the bad boys at all. Well, as far as I know, AMD is not making some 160 million bucks if it endorses RDRAM and I can tell you that there IS a difference between receiving 160 million dollars and NOT receiving this sweet little amount of money. Don't you agree?

The whole article can be found at http://www.tomshardware.com/blurb/00...525/index.html .

I don't expect RAMBUS to die anytime soon, which is why I'm not suprised that the Wilamette chipset will use RDRAM. Looks like it's VIA or bust for Intel customers.

[This message has been edited by Mattman (edited 06-18-2000).]

[Xayd]

Perfect example of why I haven't owned a box with a Chipzilla device in it since the K6-2.

I at one point saw AMD as nipping at the heels of Chipzilla with chips like the K6-2. Now, I see AMD starting a slow process of beating Intel into submission...

Xayd