pc4200 rambus

[az]

Originally posted by EvilDonnyboy
But the quesiton asked orginally in this thread was if these new 232pin rimms could be made put into quad channels when placed in pairs. Answer plain and simple is no.

Excuse me for being nit-picky, but it would be possible to do something like dual dual channel rambus.. just not with the 850, you'd need a chipset with quad-channel

AZ

[Wombat]

If you can even maintain data integrity over 4 RDRAM channels - ack!

[borat]

ohh dear rambus is taking a beating here, looks like dual chanel pc3200 ddr all they way then. i do like rambus though.

[Marshmallowman]

Rambus tech was good, and idealy suited for p4's, But rambus sure alienated themselves, tech companies should have more engineers than lawyers.......

[Wombat]

It's much more accurate to say that the P4 was suited for Rambus. The P4 is designed and tweaked for a high-bandwidth high-latency RAM interface. Intel could have designed for a high-bandwidth low-latency interface (multi-bank DDR), but that wouldn't have given them an IP lock on the market.