Anyone got any 1066 RAMBUS memory?

I've got a Celeron D with a bigass Zalman heatsink a RAMBUS 478 motherboard here and I want to overclock the hell out of it, but I have no RDRAM. Anyone got some RDRAM for a reasonable price? (Like not 2-3x the price of DDR2)

 

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believe me, i have a motherboard that uses RDRAM, it would be much cheaper to buy another motherboard with ddr memory...

 

But RDRAM is faster than DDR...

 

It isn't these days, and it has far, far worse latency (40ns vs 8 on SDRAM, for fuck's sake). Dual-channel RDRAM went up to about 4GB of bandwidth, DDR400 equalled that half a decade ago. In terms of real-world performance, DDR400 is equivalent to the best RDRAM can offer, and DDR400 is obviously well out of date by today's standards.

RDRAM is dead, and for good reason.

 

according to wikipedia it was more like 4 years ago
Though it's unfair to compare an old product with a new product, XDR DRAM is based on RDRAM and doesn't have the latency. XDR2 is coming soon and is even faster. I wouldn't say it was dead, though I wouldn't personally bother to buy more ram for an old RDRAM motherboard.

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Half a decade is 5 years... are you REALLY being picky over one poxy year? And actually, we got our Dell P4 machines with RAMBUS memory in 2000, I do believe (they were sitting their working their socks off when 9/11 happened), so the technology is indeed MORE than 5 years old.

RIMM RAM is not worth the expense. Any board that will take it is outdated, and won't take a modern processor. The majority of boards were socket 423, which is pretty appauling now, and then there were a minority that were socket 478. However, IIRC these will only support 533 chips anyway (i.e. not the D-class chips), so what's the point, really?!?!

What model is the board?

 

No, you're right, RDRAM isn't dead for all applications (it's in every PS2 produced, and XDR is in PS3). RIMMs is what I meant, it's long dead, and certainly not worth the money.

 

at first, The DDR were only
at 200/266 MHZ.

at that time were sold Scoket 478 computers (just like mine ) with rambus, as it were clearly better.

Now, DDr is on 400 MHZ

If you use Dual chanel, it can be pretty fast.

believe me, it does NOT worth its price now

edti : my computer support a Pentioum 4 at 2.53GHZ & 533MHZ FSB ^^