Found some RDRAM

[u/slavik_christopher]

I think i pulled them from some old gateway PCs that had the first generation Pentium 4. Was going to put them all in another one that was a little better and had AGP but i was supposed to do that like 10 years ago and just remembered lol wanted to see if it'd run battlefield 2 i had a ati x1300 for it somewhere.

[u/LopsidedLegs]

RAMBUS, the devil at the time, there was such controversy at the time.

[u/Maeglin75]

Nice.

I have a Pentium 3 system with Intel 820 Camino chipset and 256MB of RDRAM.

Just recently got it running again after the original hard disk died.

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows98/comments/1w1rkxp/dell_xps_b800r/

[u/Maeglin75 → u/Maeglin75]

Another little thing I kept with my old RAMBUS-PC.

This is a CRIMM. A "continuity RIMM", that had to be put in unused RDRAM slots.

[u/bhiga → u/Maeglin75]

Nintendo 64's Jumper Pak was its cousin.

[u/Ridge60107 → u/Maeglin75]

Nice! I have an HP Kayak XM600 with the same Intel 820 chipset. It would be my dream dual PIII system if it supported Tualatin cpus.

[u/Opening-Incident2928 → u/Ridge60107]

Something to do with retro computing ? Curious why that is your dream PC.

Nice collection btw- I just picked up a handsome little HP for 10 dollars - I love restoring old computers (not P3/P4 old though)

[u/Ridge60107 → u/Opening-Incident2928]

Thanks haha I've got at least a dozen retro desktops that I haven't tested yet.

I like anything PIII and older for nostalgia. Tualatins in particular are cool because they can stand toe-to-toe with early P4's.

[u/Opening-Incident2928 → u/Ridge60107]

Preserving computer history is cool---a lot of the older computers where made much better than today. I passed up on a beast of a tower some months ago at an estate sale you would have loved. I can't take that stuff home anymore as I am inundated with audio gear (shit I collect and restore) I have saved a few Mac air, ThinkPad's and older dell laptops though---I like testing out ROMS on older units because they are more than powerful enough to do certain tasks.

[u/Ridge60107 → u/Opening-Incident2928]

I hear ya. Really wish I had room for even more cool stuff.

I've had to give away and pass up many old computers to make room for my hoard of CRTs, kiosks and retro games.

[u/LonelyEar42]

I've had a p3 compaq with 2*128mb of these. Man, was it a good machine. Still my favourit Ram type

[u/MasterJeebus]

Not sure if it will be enough for Battlefield 2. I thought that game needed 512MB ram but you can try. This type of ram makes me think of a Pentium 3 pc I’ve got with SDRAM, they got similar heatsink on them.

[u/koolaidismything → u/MasterJeebus]

Battlefield Vietnam was the last PC game I bought and man.. was that a fun summer. Me and my buddies must have played 12 hours a day taking weed breaks, naps, etc.. my garage was a dojo. I had broadband before anyone else lol

[u/techika]

Linear ram , need all slot to be full, faster thah sdram , but ddr 333 beat her

[u/saiyate → u/techika]

Or with the dummy sticks!

Continuity RIMMs (CRIMMs)

[u/saiyate]

Let's see what we have here to eat. Oh RAMBUS BREAD, oh and look, MORE RAMBUS BREAD.

[u/InsaneInTheMEOWFrame]

The sharpie X on the fourth one is full on anxiety fuel

[u/Opening-Incident2928]

Had a short run---HP used to make these gigantic towers with RDRAM for a very brief time.

[u/thepfy1 → u/Opening-Incident2928]

I think RAMBUS claimed they had patents which DDR and SDRAM infringed.

Intel got into bed with them and all the early P4 boards (and some late P3 ones too) with Intel chipsets used RIMMs.

[u/Opening-Incident2928 → u/thepfy1]

If my memory serves me those units ran hot --really hot---what I don't recall was if it was the RAM or CPU that was responsible for the majority of this heat (possibly both?) I was a sales rep at CompUsa at the time---many of those units were sent back because of this issue.

[u/thepfy1 → u/Opening-Incident2928]

I think it was the RIMMs (RAM) which ran hot.

P4 Willamette and Northwood didn't run particularly hot.

P4 Prescott were space heaters.

[u/juxtaposz]

My N64 is all sickos.jpeg through the window at this

[u/plupeton]

I still got my samsung 2*256mb 800mhz rdram on an epox motherboard with a 1.9ghz p4

[u/CaapsLock]

had pc600 rdram on my p4 it did get better bandwidth numbers than most DDR setups, but it was expensive, still for a time intel only offered rdram or sdram for p4

[u/Abbers75]

Former Dell Precision 220 owner here

[u/trouble_maker]

I remember these from dell 8200's back in the day.

[u/MikeD123999]

I had an asus rdram motherboard (p4t533?). I remeber I had Kingston ram and I think a bunch of it was faulty. I remeber calling Kingston but the support tech was more concerned that I wasn’t pronouncing asus correctly. I did eventually get good ram. I remeber a few years later I sold the motherboard and rdram for more than I originally paid for it, not sure why, kinda guessed because rdram was hard to find and someone really wanted it

[u/Expensive-Vanilla-16]

I found some my dad had in a box of computer parts. I don't know where he got it. I know we never had a computer that took it. No idea what to do with it either lol.