On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:38:48PM -0800, Pong wrote: > only intel is promoting RDRAM. the rest of the motherboard chipset giants > make use of DDR RAM. that means if you go for a packaged cpu set with an > intel pentium4 chip, it's most likely the vendor placed in a RDRAM-only > motherboard. what i fear is that you may not be able to add in > extra RAM in the future in case RDRAM dies in favor of DDR. the solution > is to have the vendor replace it with a DDR capable motherboard but > i dont know what chipset to use. maybe the Via Apollo P4X266A chipset for > intel pentium4s will do. this is the brother of the KT266A chipset for > athlons.
Heck, Intel is even suing VIA for patent infringement because they created a Pentium IV motherboard that is capable of using DDR RAM instead of exclusively RDRAM. It appears they must have entered some legal agreement with Rambus when they gave their blessing to RDRAM, and now Intel is doing something that hurts them a lot. The existence of a P4 motherboard capable of using DDR SDRAM instead of the incredibly more expensive RDRAM would benefit Intel a lot, as it would drive the price of P4 systems down a great deal (not as much as an equivalent performance Athlon-based system though, but still...). The only reason why a company like Intel would act against their best interests that I can see is legal entanglements, of which Rambus has gained notoriety in recent days (they violated the JEDEC patent disclosure rules apparently, among the other things that came out in their lawsuits with Infineon). -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
