Originally posted by DiGiTaIErRoR
Rambus is still faster than DDR.

For now.

But since either way you'd have to upgrade your board to supplement your FSB, and RAM bandwidth. The choice is yours.

A p4 with rambus 1066 running at 533 FSB beats the athlons by 2 times in memory transfer.

I run an AMD system, and I'll admit, a p4 2.5 Ghz+ with rambus 1066 beats the amd any way you put it in almost all disciplines, almost.

Overall though, the p4 system would beat the amd system, but at a cost/performance ratio, the AMD wins.

You can always pay a larger amount for a minimal speed increase in most areas. Like I said, the only thing that really is an extreme difference is memory bandwidth, which is nearly a 2x increase.
First of all, PC2700 vs PC1066 RDRAM is a theoretical 1.5x performance increase (2.7GB/sec vs. 4.2GB/sec), and that isn't even factoring in latency of dual-channel RDRAM which is probably even higher than you were when you wrote that post.

Take dual-channel DDR on the nForce2 for example, it's faster, but not anywhere even close to 2 times the speed, since dual-channel = latency. Same with something like RAID 0- theoretically it's 2 times faster, but in real life it's faster, but not even close to 2x faster.

Just because the memory bandwidth is 50% faster, probably more like 20% once you factor in latency, doesn't mean the system performance is a whole ton faster.