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    Rdram

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Deadbolt360, May 14, 2006.

  1. Deadbolt360

    Deadbolt360 Notebook Evangelist

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    What is it? I have it on my old vaio desktop (using it right now). It was really expensive when i put an extra 256mb stick in it. Is it really good/bad or just expensive?
     
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  2. ez2remember

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    It was so expensive it never caught on... If I remember correctly RDRAM was released after SDRAM and before DDR ram was released. DDR ram at that time performed on par or better than RDRAM + DDR was a lot cheaper... That's when RDRAM was buried. R.I.P
     
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    RDRAM is ungodly expensive. One of my customers at work thought it was "cheap" to spend almost $600 on some RDRAM recently (I think it was 2x512.. not certain though). No idea on it's performance.
     
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