RDRAM Type

[beezer24]

What is the difference in the number of devices on an RDRAM chip?? My system currently has (2) 4-device 128 Samsung RDRAMs. I would like to bump it to (4) 128 or (2) 256... what would be the performance differences?? How about 4-device vs. 8 device 128 and 8-device vs. 16-device 256??

Thanks,

Brandon

 

[bum_jcrules]

You are better off using less devices. Since RDRAM is series, the more devices you ad the longer the pathway. The longer the pathway, the longer the amount of time it will take to complete one trip through the circit.

When talking about one 2 RIMMs instead of 4 RIMMs it will have a smaller pathway even though the matrix size id the same. The reason is because it has to go through the motherboard as well and not just through the memory modules.

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[reptilej]

so what your saying is less devices is better? i was under the impression that the more devices the better, although i'm not sure why that is so. shed some light on my ignorant(about RDR) soul.

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[ath0mps0]

For RDRAM latency purposes, less devices is better. It can be more difficult to overclock the higher density RIMMs (single-sided), though, as the individual modules (chips) tend to run hotter.

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[FatBurger]

Higher density (fewer devices/chips) only increases performance by 2-5%, and lower density overclocks better.

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