No, I RMAed my board because the Ethernet Controller on-board failed. I decided to try RDRAM because I hadn't tried it yet.You RMA'ed your board just for a 5% increase in performance?
Isn't that a bit extreme? I could see if it didn't work.
Then the remaining RDRAM sticks on the market will sell for dirt cheap at which time I can get 4 sticks of 512MB PC1066 to replace my current RAM.Won't it be funny once the probe is completed and Rambus is bankrupt for fraud? heh .. just a random thought ...
PC800 scores ~2500-2600MB/s on a 400MHz FSB. PC800 scores ~2800-2900MB/s on a 533MHz FSB. PC1066 scores 3300-3400MB/s on a 533MHz FSB. What are you currently running your DDR RAM at? My DDR at 354MHz only scored ~2700MB/s on a 533MHz FSB. So PC800 is faster than DDR even at stock.besides in benchmarks the memory i have is like 20% better then rdram in becnhmarks. Bandwidth means nothing. Have to remember latency too! Should have done the memory & cache benchmark. Should have gotten the corsair with the heat spreader on it.
3DMark2001 is slightly faster and Quake III is a whole 10FPS-15FPS faster at PC800. It's a good 20FPS faster at PC1066. So yes, PC800 on a 533MHz FSB is ~5% faster than DDR333 (or DDR354 in my case) and PC1066 is ~10% than my DDR354.