RDRAM: How Stoooopid

[TheGreatSatan]

I'm fixing someone's computer. Go figure, they have RDRAM with 256MB. It has 4 slots. 2 for the RAM pair and two for Terminators (CRIMMs). What a dumb creation. I'm going to upgrade it to 512MB for $35 on ebay. The system maxs out at 2GB, but at COST!!

Talk about supply and demand? You'd think: no one wants them, so they'd be cheap? Nope

I'm talking $500!

[Xpirate]

The only "already built" desktop machine I bought from Gateway was RDRAM. That machine was junk until I cleaned the hard drive and did a fresh install of XP. They had that machine set up with some kind of sysprep program and I never could get it to work right.

The cost to upgrade that RDRAM hacked me off as well. But I did bump up the RAM eventually on that machine before I gave it away.

[Luke122]

I came across a couple of machines using that memory in the past, and I just tell them the truth: Not worth spending money on. Buy a new mobo/cpu/ram combo, and be ready for upgrades.. I had to order 512mb (2x256mb) for one of them, and paid almost $300!

[BuzzKillington]

Is it just me or did half of this thread get deleted?

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Intel made a little... deal with the company Rambus, which resulted in Intel getting a good RIMMing while other companies (namely Via) designed SDRAM and DDR chipsets for the Pentium 4. (And exactly three people bought P3-based RDRAM boards.)

Dan Rutter writes more here (http://www.dansdata.com/p4.htm), Ctrl-F for "Why bother?".

Intel gave in before their contract was up and came out with the i845/865/875, eventually regaining market share.

[XcOM]

RDram,

I have some 4GB sticks!