Rambus

[paulll]

Rambus memory - is it substantially faster and is it likely to come down in price?

 

[Crashman]

Right now here are your fastest solutions, in order starting with the very fastest:

SiS 655, Dual DDR400
i850E, RIMM4200
i850E, PC1066
SiS 648, Single Channel DDR400
i845PE, Single Channel DDR333

The SiS 658/PC1066 is supposed to be faster still, but I haven't seen any direct comparisons between the 655 and 658.

The Granit Bay is faster than the i845PE sometimes.

i845PE is prefered over the SiS 648 for overclocking, because the fastest, most stable 648 board (8SG667) doesn't have BIOS overvoltage, while many PE boards do.

Price comparison: PC3200 and PC1066 are similar in both price and performance. I believe PC1066 might actually be the cheaper solution.

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[juin]

SIS 655 have dont prove it faster with PC 2700 official support only with PC 3200 that just past intel specification as others have fail.

Read lack of stability to high frenquency

Just next to the lab and the bunker you will find the marketing departement.

 

[Crashman]

I hear MSI and Gigabyte boards run perfectly stable with PC3200, except the Gigabyte board doesn't like the Cas2 setting, even with the rest of the timings slow, and that Cas2.5 always works, even with the rest of the timings fast?

Anyway, MSI seems stable at all settings and Gigabyte at all settings with Cas2.5

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