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Quick question...why on earth does Dell use Rambus on PCs when it costs $300+ for 512MB of ram compared to $100 for DDR memory? I've seen customers come in with 1-2 year old Dells using Rambus.
Well, Intel and Rambus had a thing going a while back, that was when the early P4s were getting a lot of pressure from the new Athlon XPs. I benchmarked a Dell P4 1.7 Mhz (768Mb Rambus RDRAM) against a box with an Athlon XP 1700 and 1Gb of the best DDR available. Overall, the Athlon just won. It was quite a bit better on the processor scores but the Rambus slaughtered the DDR. Actually I think it was only the superior graphics card in the AMD box that tipped the balance.