Wouldn't it be funny if......EDIT (AMD used Rambus)

.....AMD quietly was switching over to Rambus XDR.

The irony.

if amd switched over to rambus ide throw my computer off the roof and buy an xbox

It would be kinda funny really. AMD has been playing catchup (remember going to slot then back to socket?) with Intel for quite a while. Now there's talk of Intel going to an X86-64 instruction set along with a form of PR rating. Then AMD going to RAMBUS, which was an Intel "thing".

NONONONONONONONONONo! No way in hell!!! I would find a new industry to work in. I would rebel and never look at another PC again unless it was to unload a 12 guage into it.

Unless it was really cool. If it was fast enough, I might get bought off...

Quote: Originally posted by moshpit on 03-28-2004 at 08:57 PM
NONONONONONONONONONo! No way in hell!!! I would find a new industry to work in. I would rebel and never look at another PC again unless it was to unload a 12 guage into it.

Unless it was really cool. If it was fast enough, I might get bought off...

Don't let us twist your arm or anything!

Quote: Originally posted by scriptasylum on 03-28-2004 at 10:26 PM
Don't let us twist your arm or anything!

http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.p...sk=view&id=1196

Quote: The source also said that AMD might be going its own way by not following Intel with their DDR2 implementations. Instead, the world’s second largest chipmaker may go straight to DDR3 or XDR in hopes of adopting a better architecture

Looks like they might use Rambus XDR. I guess it depends on the DDR3 cost performance. XDR would be great to use for AMD, much more head room.

I said it over 14 months ago!

If the performance is there i don't see why they shouldn't adopt rambus technology.

Rambus has generally been maligned (and probably rightly so) for dodgy business practices. If they clean that up then I don't see why the past should be held against them. I mean, didn't OCZ have dodgy business practices in the past and now they are popular with enthusiasts.

Quote: Originally Posted by bigheadache
If the performance is there i don't see why they shouldn't adopt rambus technology.

Rambus has generally been maligned (and probably rightly so) for dodgy business practices. If they clean that up then I don't see why the past should be held against them. I mean, didn't OCZ have dodgy business practices in the past and now they are popular with enthusiasts.

some of us will never forget just how dodgy they were...i don't care if ocz came to my door with a free box of memory..i'd turn out around and sell it to some suckah's before i'd let it infect my computers

If OCZ came to your door with a fee box of memory, you still have my address so....

If it was anything like DDR2, i'd probably have to cry. But i don't see why AMD can't switch to RAMBUS and make it work...

Always been an OCZ fan since they "cleaned up", they are probably my #1 right now. great customer service, great RAM, and overclocks unexpectidly well. plan to stick with them, as their prices are also very competitive.

I love my OCZ + VIA KT880 combo, not a single crash in, oh, close to 10 months

Seriously though, with dual cores, a lot of bandwidth with low latencies would be necessary, give or take 2x as much. With the little performance gain that DDR2 is showing even now, after so much time in use, I doubt how it could pony up such a massive increase in performance.

How similiar are GPU piplines / vertex / pixel shaders to CPU cores / math / FPU units? 16 pipelines for a GPU sounds vaugely like a 16 core GPU - what am I missing here????

Look at the memory used to power our graphics cards, GDDR3 @ 500mhz / effective 1000mhz is not at all uncommon. DDR2 is reaching for it's 800 spec !!!!

ddr2 shouldve never left the lab
straight to dd3 boys

I have Faith in AMD to make RAMBUS work, they haven't let me down so far. Been an AMD man eversince i built my first system, never even touched an Intel since i got rid of my POS gateway. Now talk about dodgy buisness practices. Gateway IMO is one of the worse.