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Originally posted by pancito
For i was told Windows XP was design for RAMBUS memory.
That's like saying parachutes were designed for the Space Shuttle... RAMBUS memory works in a system that is designed for RAMBUS. Since no operating system talks directly to a system's memory, Windows XP could give a flip what kind of RAM you have plugged into your motherboard (and, to a lesser extent, it's not too worried about the motherboard, either). The problem with the general populace is that they only see the big number in front of the MHz and don't bother to realize that RAMBUS is only a 4 bit data bus, in contrast to the 32 bit data bus that comes with SDRAM. Hence, RDRAM has to be 8x as fast to keep up with SDRAM's parallelized architecture. For those of you that own Intel setups with RDRAM, I don't mean to diss your rig. I just have issues with the company RAMBUS and would rather spend my money elsewhere when possible... I just can't do business with a company that joins an open-standards consortium of businesses and then quits the consortium only to patent the ideas that came from said consortium... Thank you, RAMBUS...