What do you think of RAMBUS Ram??

[folex187]

Ok so I have a ton of Rambus ram that I'm hoping to be able to carry over to my new mobo and cpu. I have been reading nothing but bad things on it however. I was wondering what everyone thinks of it and if it will really hinder performance as much as they are saying compared to lets say DDR PC2100
Thanks,
Alex

[FreiDogMU]

i850e could very welll be the last RDRAM chipset we see.
PC800 is about the same basic performace as PC2100, PC1066 is a bit faster all around that PC2700, but not much.

if you've got the PC800 i understand reusing it on an 850e board, right now you're not going ot be dissapointed with the performance, it's still pretty competetive with DDR. And while RAM isn't that expensive, it's alot mroe than it was 9-12 months ago.

but the next chipset upgrade you do will almost certainly be a dual channel DDR board.

[m0nk]

It's a shame that intel's stopping support for RIMM and going on to dual-channel ddr. Personally, i'm a huge fan of rambus and know for a fact that if u'r runing the new intel chip's with 533fsb, no form of memory is going to take advantage of the new bus like 1066mhz rambus. Even pc3500 can't compare to 1066 rambus; think about it, 3500mhz clock compared to 1066mhz, do the math. Although many people will disagree with me on this one, i highly encourage you to go rambus if you have the new line of intel chip's....and for a suiting mobo: http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/...-c/overview.htm (http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4t533-c/overview.htm)

[curtisjade1]

Rambus ram seems to be dieing out i would not like to get caut with a problem with my ram if i had rambus ram in a few years

[Master Bob]

when u buy RAM also think of it as an invesment into your future, RAMBUS is dieng. there won't be many more motherboards supporting RAMBUS so why buy it? if you have RAMBUS dimms sititng around by a decent mobo that supports it and use it as a server or a folding machine, whatever but definetly not your primary PC.