BF2S Forums RD Ram ?

it is, but not for the price you pay for rd ram.

Bertster7 wrote:

Wow RDRAM, oldschool.

Hey as long as I can play multi player games online it doesn't matter to me.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi … mp;Ntk=all

heres some choices at Newegg... RDRAM is expensive... you could check into a moboard and ddr ram
and see if its worth it... also make sure your proc and case are able to work with new moboard

Last edited by [TUF]Catbox (2007-01-22 15:21:46)

If RD rams older why is it alot more dearer?

[69th_GFH]GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

no one (except him) uses them anymore, thats why

Wait, what?! He has RD-RAM? Stop the presses, we have an RD owner over here! We must get our best paranormal investigators on-site pronto.

did u rob a bank so u could buy it? lol i can get so much DDR2 for the price of RD-RAM)

I have 2 sticks of RD-RAM laying around. Two 64MB sticks that is...

aujt74 wrote:

Intel & Dell were a big fans of RDRAM for a while. Got an 2002 P4 Dell hanging around somewhere, was painful on the wallet to upgrade from the stingy 384Mb RDRAM to 1Gig RDRAM. I mean honestly, rip-off or what...

To answer the OP's question, RDRAM was good for it's time but a lot more costly than SDRAM with quite a few drawbacks. The problem is, if your motherboard is designed for RDRAM you cant use any type of SDRAM (DDR1 or DDR2) so it's a bit academical. RDRAM does significantly better performance-wise than DDR. But DDR2 is cheaper, lower latencies and greater performance.

But since you are tied to RDRAM by your mobo, there is no point worrying about it.

Thanks, I understand a little more about it. So basically were getting ripped off since my mobo can only handle Rd ram ? I know it's a lot more expensive than the rest but I thought nothing of it. We paid like 400 for it or something around that range. my computer needs an upgrade badly.

Will I notice a difference in playing 2142 and bf2 ??  <-------that prob as been asked before but oh well.

Obiwan wrote:

aujt74 wrote:

Intel & Dell were a big fans of RDRAM for a while. Got an 2002 P4 Dell hanging around somewhere, was painful on the wallet to upgrade from the stingy 384Mb RDRAM to 1Gig RDRAM. I mean honestly, rip-off or what...

To answer the OP's question, RDRAM was good for it's time but a lot more costly than SDRAM with quite a few drawbacks. The problem is, if your motherboard is designed for RDRAM you cant use any type of SDRAM (DDR1 or DDR2) so it's a bit academical. RDRAM does significantly better performance-wise than DDR. But DDR2 is cheaper, lower latencies and greater performance.

But since you are tied to RDRAM by your mobo, there is no point worrying about it.

Thanks, I understand a little more about it. So basically were getting ripped off since my mobo can only handle Rd ram ? I know it's a lot more expensive than the rest but I thought nothing of it. We paid like 400 for it or something around that range. my computer needs an upgrade badly.

Will I notice a difference in playing 2142 and bf2 ??  <-------that prob as been asked before but oh well.

Anyone know ?

Obiwan wrote:

Obiwan wrote:

aujt74 wrote:

Intel & Dell were a big fans of RDRAM for a while. Got an 2002 P4 Dell hanging around somewhere, was painful on the wallet to upgrade from the stingy 384Mb RDRAM to 1Gig RDRAM. I mean honestly, rip-off or what...

To answer the OP's question, RDRAM was good for it's time but a lot more costly than SDRAM with quite a few drawbacks. The problem is, if your motherboard is designed for RDRAM you cant use any type of SDRAM (DDR1 or DDR2) so it's a bit academical. RDRAM does significantly better performance-wise than DDR. But DDR2 is cheaper, lower latencies and greater performance.

But since you are tied to RDRAM by your mobo, there is no point worrying about it.

Thanks, I understand a little more about it. So basically were getting ripped off since my mobo can only handle Rd ram ? I know it's a lot more expensive than the rest but I thought nothing of it. We paid like 400 for it or something around that range. my computer needs an upgrade badly.

Will I notice a difference in playing 2142 and bf2 ??  <-------that prob as been asked before but oh well.

Anyone know ?

It'll be fine. DDR2 isn't that much faster and DDR is slower. The real problem with RDRAM is the price.

aujt74 wrote:

Intel & Dell were a big fans of RDRAM for a while. Got an 2002 P4 Dell hanging around somewhere, was painful on the wallet to upgrade from the stingy 384Mb RDRAM to 1Gig RDRAM. I mean honestly, rip-off or what...

To answer the OP's question, RDRAM was good for it's time but a lot more costly than SDRAM with quite a few drawbacks. The problem is, if your motherboard is designed for RDRAM you cant use any type of SDRAM (DDR1 or DDR2) so it's a bit academical. RDRAM does significantly better performance-wise than DDR. But DDR2 is cheaper, lower latencies and greater performance.

But since you are tied to RDRAM by your mobo, there is no point worrying about it.

I would have to say that you are incorrect about RDRAM being worse the DDR.  On paper RDRAM is a lot better then DDR.  It can transfer data a lot quicker.  The only reason that RDRAM is so expensive is because Rambus did not allow third party companies to make RDRAM.  Also, RDRAM is considered a lot better the DDR RAM and is used mostly in servers, because of it's price.  If it was not for Rambus not allowing third parties to create RDRAM, we would be laughing at DDR RAM.

Edit:  To the person that asked if RDRAM effects BF2 and BF2142.  I would have to say that if it does you will not see a lot of difference.  I have played BF2 on computers that have DDR and RD RAM and did not notice a difference.  I would actually go to say that my load times on the computer that had RDRAM was a lot quicker then my PC that has DDR.  They also have the same size of RAM.

Last edited by dubbs (2007-01-22 15:57:02)

Obiwan wrote:

I had a computer guy come over about 5 months ago to put in some ram.. He ended up getting me 2 sticks of 256 rd ram. Now were upgrading to 2 512 sticks of RD ram since my crappy computer can only support 1 gig  and I was just wondering if it is faster than ddr ram.

I have the same in my Old Dell 8250. I have 4 sticks of 256 in it. It can hold as much as 1.5g 'cause it is pc1066. Cost me as much as a pc to upgrade to 1.5g. It's my 3rd Pc so it's the last and least to be played.